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Spiral Knights cover artvsSWAT 4 cover art

Spiral KnightsvsSWAT 4

Spiral Knights leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); SWAT 4 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Spiral KnightsSWAT 4

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 6

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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Spiral Knights

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SWAT 4