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Mini Motorways cover artvsOxygen Not Included cover art

Mini MotorwaysvsOxygen Not Included

Mini Motorways leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Oxygen Not Included leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION2 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE5 /10OPTIMIZATION9 /10
Mini MotorwaysOxygen Not Included

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 1

Mini Motorways leans harder on execution: real-time road drawing

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance5 vs 5

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization9 vs 10

Oxygen Not Included leans harder on optimization: Gas, liquid, and power engineering are essentially a solvable engineering puzzle

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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