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Night in the Woods cover artvsSkylanders: Trap Team cover art

Night in the WoodsvsSkylanders: Trap Team

Night in the Woods leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Skylanders: Trap Team leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION2 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Night in the WoodsSkylanders: Trap Team

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 3

Skylanders: Trap Team leans harder on execution: Brawling tuned for children with generous margins

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 4

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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Night in the Woods

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Skylanders: Trap Team