Menu flow, side by side

Every extra screen, click and “Are you sure?” is paid again each time the player repeats an action. Below, five tricks that shorten the path, each on the same little inventory and shop. On the left the trick is off, on the right it is on. The cursor plays the same task on both sides, and the counts under each screen add up every click, key press, screen change and confirm dialog.

Press Try it yourself on any of them to do the task by hand.

The numbers

The same scripted tasks run without animation, once with every trick off and once with only that trick on. “Inputs” counts clicks plus key presses.

Each trick sits behind one switch in a single settings object (hotkeys, bulkActions, rememberChoices, undoNotConfirm, sortAndPin), so the left and right screens run exactly the same game code. Art, cursor and pixel font: Kenney, CC0.