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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs cover artvsSherlock Holmes: The Awakened cover art

Amnesia: A Machine for PigsvsSherlock Holmes: The Awakened

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Amnesia: A Machine for PigsSherlock Holmes: The Awakened

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 4

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 6

Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened leans harder on optimization: Deduction chains have one solvable correct answer

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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Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened