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Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker cover artvsOrcs Must Die! cover art

Captain Toad: Treasure TrackervsOrcs Must Die!

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Orcs Must Die! leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION3 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
Captain Toad: Treasure TrackerOrcs Must Die!

Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 4

Orcs Must Die! leans harder on execution: Active shooting supplements the traps

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Orcs Must Die! leans harder on variance: Minor wave composition randomness

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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Orcs Must Die!