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Ori and the Blind Forest cover artvsTetris Plus cover art

Ori and the Blind ForestvsTetris Plus

Ori and the Blind Forest leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Tetris Plus leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Ori and the Blind ForestTetris Plus

Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 8

Tetris Plus leans harder on execution: Piece placement speed under pressure decides everything

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Tetris Plus leans harder on variance: Random piece order is bounded and rapidly mappable

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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