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Bendy and the Ink MachinevsMurdered: Soul Suspect

Bendy and the Ink Machine leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Murdered: Soul Suspect leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION2 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Bendy and the Ink MachineMurdered: Soul Suspect

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 1

Bendy and the Ink Machine leans harder on execution: Light combat and stealth evasion

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 4

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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Bendy and the Ink Machine

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Murdered: Soul Suspect