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Assassin's Creed: PiratesvsPapers, Please
Assassin's Creed: Pirates leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Papers, Please leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Assassin's Creed: PiratesPapers, Please
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 4
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 4
Papers, Please leans harder on variance: Random entrant documents and scripted-event surprises
Optimization6 vs 7
Papers, Please leans harder on optimization: Internalizing rulebooks and inspection workflow efficiency
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.