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State of Decay 2 cover artvsTorchlight III cover art

State of Decay 2vsTorchlight III

State of Decay 2 leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Torchlight III leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION3 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE5 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
State of Decay 2Torchlight III

Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 2

State of Decay 2 leans harder on execution: Combat is forgiving; stealth and swings need modest timing

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance5 vs 5

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 7

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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State of Decay 2

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Torchlight III