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Please, Don't Touch Anything 3D cover artvsThis Is the Police cover art

Please, Don't Touch Anything 3DvsThis Is the Police

Please, Don't Touch Anything 3D leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); This Is the Police leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE5 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Please, Don't Touch Anything 3DThis Is the Police

Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 1

This Is the Police leans harder on execution: Menu-driven dispatching, no dexterity

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance5 vs 4

Please, Don't Touch Anything 3D leans harder on variance: Dozens of hidden outcomes invite blind experimentation

Optimization7 vs 7

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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