head to head

Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse cover artvsProject Kat: Paper Lily Prologue cover art

Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's CursevsProject Kat: Paper Lily Prologue

Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's CurseProject Kat: Paper Lily Prologue

Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 1

Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue leans harder on execution: Top-down walking and menu choices only

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 4

Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue leans harder on variance: Hidden rules and alternate solutions are the hook until discovered

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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Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse

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Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue