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Return of the Obra Dinn cover artvsShenzhen I/O cover art

Return of the Obra DinnvsShenzhen I/O

Return of the Obra Dinn leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Shenzhen I/O leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE0 /10OPTIMIZATION10 /10
Return of the Obra DinnShenzhen I/O

Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 1

Shenzhen I/O leans harder on execution: Writing code in a manual has zero twitch component

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance0 vs 0

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization10 vs 10

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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