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Sea of Thieves cover artvsThe Ship: Remasted cover art

Sea of ThievesvsThe Ship: Remasted

Sea of Thieves leans Reads (Competitive PvP); The Ship: Remasted leans Reads (Pure Mind Games).

EXECUTION6 /10READS7 /10VARIANCE5 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Sea of ThievesThe Ship: Remasted

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 3

Sea of Thieves leans harder on execution: Ship sailing and naval gunnery require hands

Reads7 vs 8

The Ship: Remasted leans harder on reads: Stalking and evading a human hunter who models you is everything

Variance5 vs 4

Sea of Thieves leans harder on variance: Server encounters, weather, loot vary

Optimization5 vs 4

Sea of Thieves leans harder on optimization: Routes, loadouts, ship setups 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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The Ship: Remasted