head to head

Alone in the Dark: Inferno cover artvsMetro Exodus cover art

Alone in the Dark: InfernovsMetro Exodus

Alone in the Dark: Inferno leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Metro Exodus leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Alone in the Dark: InfernoMetro Exodus

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

Metro Exodus leans harder on execution: open-zone gunplay and stealth takedowns

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 5

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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Alone in the Dark: Inferno

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Metro Exodus