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Ride 4 cover artvsSteep cover art

Ride 4vsSteep

Ride 4 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Steep leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Ride 4Steep

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 7

Ride 4 leans harder on execution: Braking points and lean angles on bikes punish tiny errors

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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