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Donkey Kong Jr. Math cover artvsHuman: Fall Flat cover art

Donkey Kong Jr. MathvsHuman: Fall Flat

Donkey Kong Jr. Math leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Human: Fall Flat leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE0 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Donkey Kong Jr. MathHuman: Fall Flat

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 4

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance0 vs 1

Human: Fall Flat leans harder on variance: Physics jank adds slapstick unpredictability

Optimization5 vs 5

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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Donkey Kong Jr. Math

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Human: Fall Flat