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Thomas Was Alone cover artvsUnravel Two cover art

Thomas Was AlonevsUnravel Two

Thomas Was Alone leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Unravel Two leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE0 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Thomas Was AloneUnravel Two

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 4

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance0 vs 1

Unravel Two leans harder on variance: Fixed levels, fully visible

Optimization5 vs 6

Unravel Two leans harder on optimization: Puzzles solved by routing two yarn characters together

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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Thomas Was Alone

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Unravel Two