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The Curse of Monkey Island cover artvsTiny Room Stories: Town Mystery cover art

The Curse of Monkey IslandvsTiny Room Stories: Town Mystery

The Curse of Monkey Island leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
The Curse of Monkey IslandTiny Room Stories: Town Mystery

Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 1

Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery leans harder on execution: Rotating dioramas and tapping clues, no dexterity

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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The Curse of Monkey Island

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Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery