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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs cover artvsThe Council cover art

Amnesia: A Machine for PigsvsThe Council

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

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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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 1

The Council leans harder on reads: NPCs have vulnerabilities and immunities, but fully scripted.

Variance4 vs 4

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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