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Green Hell leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Papers, Please leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION3 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE5 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 4

Papers, Please leans harder on execution: Document-checking speed directly pays the rent

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance5 vs 4

Green Hell leans harder on variance: Disease, injury, and weather introduce layered randomness

Optimization7 vs 7

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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