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Disco Elysium: The Final Cut cover artvsPlatform 8 cover art

Disco Elysium: The Final CutvsPlatform 8

Disco Elysium: The Final Cut leans Variance (Systems & Chaos); Platform 8 leans Variance (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE5 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Disco Elysium: The Final CutPlatform 8

Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 1

Platform 8 leans harder on execution: Walking a train carriage requires nothing physical

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance5 vs 6

Platform 8 leans harder on variance: Spotting which anomaly spawned is hidden-information detection

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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Platform 8