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Disco Elysium: The Final Cut cover artvsProject Kat: Paper Lily Prologue cover art

Disco Elysium: The Final CutvsProject Kat: Paper Lily Prologue

Disco Elysium: The Final Cut leans Variance (Systems & Chaos); Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE5 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Disco Elysium: The Final CutProject 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.

Variance5 vs 4

Disco Elysium: The Final Cut leans harder on variance: Dice checks and hidden thresholds gate outcomes

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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Disco Elysium: The Final Cut

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Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue