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Serious Sam 3: BFE cover artvsTetris Ultimate cover art

Serious Sam 3: BFEvsTetris Ultimate

Serious Sam 3: BFE leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Tetris Ultimate leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION8 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Serious Sam 3: BFETetris Ultimate

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 9

Tetris Ultimate leans harder on execution: Piece placement speed under acceleration is everything

Reads0 vs 1

Tetris Ultimate leans harder on reads: Versus garbage exchanges allow slight opponent timing awareness

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 4

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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Serious Sam 3: BFE

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Tetris Ultimate