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Risk of Rain leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Teleglitch: Die More Edition leans Execution (Twitch Chaos).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE6 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Teleglitch: Die More Edition leans harder on execution: Tense top-down aim under scarce ammo punishes every miss

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance6 vs 6

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 6

Risk of Rain leans harder on optimization: Item stacking and time-pressure routing is solvable.

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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