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Alan Wake Remastered cover artvsLittle Nightmares cover art

Alan Wake RemasteredvsLittle Nightmares

Alan Wake Remastered leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Little Nightmares leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Alan Wake RemasteredLittle Nightmares

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.

Variance2 vs 1

Alan Wake Remastered leans harder on variance: enemy spawn placement varies

Optimization3 vs 4

Little Nightmares leans harder on optimization: Routes have fixed solutions.

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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