head to head

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People PlaygroundvsVA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action

People Playground leans Optimization (Light / Casual); VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action leans Optimization (Light / Casual).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 0

People Playground leans harder on execution: Dragging ragdolls has no performance ceiling

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

People Playground leans harder on variance: Physics outcomes surprise until the systems are learned

Optimization3 vs 3

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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