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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs cover artvsLa pesadilla de Illojuan cover art

Amnesia: A Machine for PigsvsLa pesadilla de Illojuan

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); La pesadilla de Illojuan leans Variance (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Execution1 vs 2

La pesadilla de Illojuan leans harder on execution: Walking-sim horror with minimal input demands

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 4

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 4

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs leans harder on optimization: Light puzzles and routes are trivially solvable on repeat

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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