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Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders cover artvsThe Curse of Monkey Island cover art

Agatha Christie: The ABC MurdersvsThe Curse of Monkey Island

Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); The Curse of Monkey Island leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Agatha Christie: The ABC MurdersThe Curse of Monkey Island

Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 0

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 3

Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders leans harder on variance: The mystery is hidden information until deduced

Optimization6 vs 7

The Curse of Monkey Island leans harder on optimization: inventory logic puzzles 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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Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders

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The Curse of Monkey Island