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Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You cover artvsThe Children of Clay cover art

Orwell: Keeping an Eye on YouvsThe Children of Clay

Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); The Children of Clay leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Orwell: Keeping an Eye on YouThe Children of Clay

Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 1

The Children of Clay leans harder on execution: Examining the artefact needs no dexterity

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 4

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 6

The Children of Clay leans harder on optimization: Puzzle steps have fixed discoverable solutions

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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Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You

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The Children of Clay