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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt cover artvsZanzarah: The Hidden Portal cover art

The Witcher 3: Wild HuntvsZanzarah: The Hidden Portal

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Zanzarah: The Hidden Portal leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

Zanzarah: The Hidden Portal leans harder on execution: Fairy duels are real-time first-person shooting

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

Zanzarah: The Hidden Portal leans harder on variance: Wild fairy spawns and catch rates are random

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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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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Zanzarah: The Hidden Portal