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A Game About Digging A Hole cover artvsSupermarket Simulator cover art

A Game About Digging A HolevsSupermarket Simulator

A Game About Digging A Hole leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Supermarket Simulator leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
A Game About Digging A HoleSupermarket Simulator

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Execution1 vs 2

Supermarket Simulator leans harder on execution: Stocking and checkout are light manual busywork.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 7

Supermarket Simulator leans harder on optimization: Pricing margins, ordering and shelf layout drive growth.

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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