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Blade Runner cover artvsSherlock Holmes: The Silver Earring cover art

Blade RunnervsSherlock Holmes: The Silver Earring

Blade Runner leans Variance (Systems & Chaos); Sherlock Holmes: The Silver Earring leans Variance (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE6 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Blade RunnerSherlock Holmes: The Silver Earring

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 0

Blade Runner leans harder on execution: Point-and-click investigation, no dexterity required

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance6 vs 7

Sherlock Holmes: The Silver Earring leans harder on variance: The case's clues are hidden information you must gather

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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Sherlock Holmes: The Silver Earring