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Bad Piggies cover artvsHelltaker cover art

Bad PiggiesvsHelltaker

Bad Piggies leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Helltaker leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION2 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Bad PiggiesHelltaker

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 1

Bad Piggies leans harder on execution: Light steering of contraptions after building

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 0

Bad Piggies leans harder on variance: Levels are fixed and repeatable

Optimization7 vs 7

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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