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Disco Elysium: The Final Cut cover artvsSherlock Holmes: The Silver Earring cover art

Disco Elysium: The Final CutvsSherlock Holmes: The Silver Earring

Disco Elysium: The Final Cut leans Variance (Systems & Chaos); Sherlock Holmes: The Silver Earring leans Variance (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE5 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Disco Elysium: The Final CutSherlock Holmes: The Silver Earring

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.

Variance5 vs 7

Sherlock Holmes: The Silver Earring leans harder on variance: The case's clues are hidden information you must gather

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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Sherlock Holmes: The Silver Earring