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Planet Coaster cover artvsTeardown cover art

Planet CoastervsTeardown

Planet Coaster leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Teardown leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION3 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
Planet CoasterTeardown

Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 4

Teardown leans harder on execution: The timed escape run needs clean movement

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Planet Coaster leans harder on variance: Guest mood noise is low and quickly mappable

Optimization8 vs 8

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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