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999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine DoorsvsAmnesia: A Machine for Pigs

999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine DoorsAmnesia: A Machine for Pigs

Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 1

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs leans harder on execution: Walking and lever-pulling demand essentially nothing physical

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 4

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 5

999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors leans harder on optimization: Escape-room puzzles and route flowchart are fully 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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999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors

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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs