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Box Boy! + Box Girl! cover artvsWorld of Goo cover art

Box Boy! + Box Girl!vsWorld of Goo

Box Boy! + Box Girl! leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); World of Goo leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION3 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
Box Boy! + Box Girl!World of Goo

Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 3

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization8 vs 8

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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Box Boy! + Box Girl!

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World of Goo