head to head

D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die - Season 1 cover artvsMurdered: Soul Suspect cover art

D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die - Season 1vsMurdered: Soul Suspect

D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die - Season 1 leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Murdered: Soul Suspect leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION2 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die - Season 1Murdered: Soul Suspect

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 1

D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die - Season 1 leans harder on execution: QTE swipes are forgiving and brief

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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D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die - Season 1

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Murdered: Soul Suspect