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Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time cover artvsThe Night of the Rabbit cover art

Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About TimevsThe Night of the Rabbit

Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); The Night of the Rabbit leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION2 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About TimeThe Night of the Rabbit

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 1

Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time leans harder on execution: Tapping plants quickly only matters in surge moments

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 4

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 6

Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time leans harder on optimization: Lawn economy and plant placement are the solvable core

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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