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Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink cover artvsThe Neverhood cover art

Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and InkvsThe Neverhood

Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); The Neverhood leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and InkThe Neverhood

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 1

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink leans harder on variance: Object placements are unknown only until spotted

Optimization4 vs 4

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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Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink

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The Neverhood