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Shenzhen I/O cover artvsThe Witness cover art

Shenzhen I/OvsThe Witness

Shenzhen I/O leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); The Witness leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE0 /10OPTIMIZATION10 /10
Shenzhen I/OThe Witness

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 0

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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Shenzhen I/O

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The Witness