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Night in the Woods cover artvsThe Last Tinker: City of Colors cover art

Night in the WoodsvsThe Last Tinker: City of Colors

Night in the Woods leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); The Last Tinker: City of Colors leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION2 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Night in the WoodsThe Last Tinker: City of Colors

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 3

The Last Tinker: City of Colors leans harder on execution: Auto-jump traversal removes most physical demand

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 4

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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Night in the Woods

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The Last Tinker: City of Colors