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Geometry Dash cover artvsSuper Meat Boy cover art

Geometry DashvsSuper Meat Boy

Geometry Dash leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Super Meat Boy leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION10 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE0 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Geometry DashSuper Meat Boy

Axis by axis

Execution10 vs 10

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance0 vs 1

Super Meat Boy leans harder on variance: Fully deterministic levels

Optimization3 vs 3

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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