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Project Hospital cover artvsSimCity (2013) cover art

Project HospitalvsSimCity (2013)

Project Hospital leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); SimCity (2013) leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION9 /10
Project HospitalSimCity (2013)

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 1

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization9 vs 8

Project Hospital leans harder on optimization: Department layout, staffing and diagnostics workflow are solvable.

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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SimCity (2013)