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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs cover artvsKathy Rain: Director's Cut cover art

Amnesia: A Machine for PigsvsKathy Rain: Director's Cut

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Kathy Rain: Director's Cut leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Amnesia: A Machine for PigsKathy Rain: Director's Cut

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 1

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 5

Kathy Rain: Director's Cut leans harder on variance: The mystery's clues are hidden information until found

Optimization5 vs 6

Kathy Rain: Director's Cut leans harder on optimization: Inventory and dialogue puzzle chains 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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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

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Kathy Rain: Director's Cut