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Amnesia: The Dark Descent cover artvsGoat Simulator 3 cover art

Amnesia: The Dark DescentvsGoat Simulator 3

Amnesia: The Dark Descent leans Optimization (Light / Casual); Goat Simulator 3 leans Execution (Light / Casual).

EXECUTION2 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Amnesia: The Dark DescentGoat Simulator 3

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 3

Goat Simulator 3 leans harder on execution: Loose physics goat control

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

Goat Simulator 3 leans harder on variance: Glitchy emergent physics events

Optimization3 vs 3

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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