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Bubble People cover artvsThe Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe cover art

Bubble PeoplevsThe Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe

Bubble People leans Variance (Light / Casual); The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe leans Optimization (Light / Casual).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Bubble PeopleThe Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 0

Bubble People leans harder on execution: Clicking things with a mouse, nothing more

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

Bubble People leans harder on variance: Small surprises in what clicks do, quickly exhausted

Optimization2 vs 2

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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