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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified cover artvsWorms Crazy Golf cover art

The Bureau: XCOM DeclassifiedvsWorms Crazy Golf

The Bureau: XCOM Declassified leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Worms Crazy Golf leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

Worms Crazy Golf leans harder on execution: Power-meter timing on every shot has a real ceiling

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 6

The Bureau: XCOM Declassified leans harder on optimization: squad tactics and builds are 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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