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Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker cover artvsEscape Goat cover art

Captain Toad: Treasure TrackervsEscape Goat

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Escape Goat leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION3 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
Captain Toad: Treasure TrackerEscape Goat

Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 4

Escape Goat leans harder on execution: Some timing on jumps and switches

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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Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker

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