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The Evil Within cover artvsWarhammer: End Times - Vermintide cover art

The Evil WithinvsWarhammer: End Times - Vermintide

The Evil Within leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
The Evil WithinWarhammer: End Times - Vermintide

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 4

Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide leans harder on variance: Director spawns and loot dice vary every run

Optimization7 vs 6

The Evil Within leans harder on optimization: Upgrade tree, bottle routing and enemy-avoid sequencing are deeply optimisable

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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Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide