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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs cover artvsSpirit Hunter: NG cover art

Amnesia: A Machine for PigsvsSpirit Hunter: NG

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Spirit Hunter: NG leans Variance (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Amnesia: A Machine for PigsSpirit Hunter: NG

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 0

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs leans harder on execution: Walking and lever-pulling demand essentially nothing physical

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 5

Spirit Hunter: NG leans harder on variance: Hidden death triggers and unknown spirit lore dominate first runs.

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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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

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Spirit Hunter: NG