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999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors cover artvsStasis: Bone Totem cover art

999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine DoorsvsStasis: Bone Totem

999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Stasis: Bone Totem leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine DoorsStasis: Bone Totem

Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 1

Stasis: Bone Totem leans harder on execution: Isometric pointing and clicking, zero twitch

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 5

Stasis: Bone Totem leans harder on variance: The station's secrets are hidden until uncovered

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.

full breakdown

999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors

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Stasis: Bone Totem