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999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors cover artvsThe Exit 8 cover art

999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine DoorsvsThe Exit 8

999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); The Exit 8 leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine DoorsThe Exit 8

Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 1

The Exit 8 leans harder on execution: Walking a corridor demands nothing physical

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 5

The Exit 8 leans harder on variance: Which anomaly appears each loop is hidden information

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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999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors

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The Exit 8