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Burly Men at Sea cover artvsGone Home cover art

Burly Men at SeavsGone Home

Burly Men at Sea leans Variance (Light / Casual); Gone Home leans Optimization (Light / Casual).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Burly Men at SeaGone Home

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.

Variance2 vs 1

Burly Men at Sea leans harder on variance: Branch outcomes are unknown until each route is sailed

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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Burly Men at Sea

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