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Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story cover artvsDisco Elysium: The Final Cut cover art

Another Lost Phone: Laura's StoryvsDisco Elysium: The Final Cut

Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Disco Elysium: The Final Cut leans Variance (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE5 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Another Lost Phone: Laura's StoryDisco Elysium: The Final Cut

Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 0

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance5 vs 5

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 5

Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story leans harder on optimization: Linking clues across apps is a solvable deduction puzzle

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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Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story

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Disco Elysium: The Final Cut