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Donut County cover artvsHow Fish Is Made cover art

Donut CountyvsHow Fish Is Made

Donut County leans Optimization (Light / Casual); How Fish Is Made leans Variance (Light / Casual).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Donut CountyHow Fish Is Made

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.

Variance1 vs 2

How Fish Is Made leans harder on variance: Surreal encounters are scripted-but-unknown the first time

Optimization2 vs 1

Donut County leans harder on optimization: Light swallow-order puzzles, easily solved

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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