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Doki Doki Literature Club! cover artvsHey You, Pikachu! cover art

Doki Doki Literature Club!vsHey You, Pikachu!

Doki Doki Literature Club! leans Optimization (Light / Casual); Hey You, Pikachu! leans Variance (Light / Casual).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Doki Doki Literature Club!Hey You, Pikachu!

Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 1

Hey You, Pikachu! leans harder on execution: Speaking into a microphone is the main input

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

Hey You, Pikachu! leans harder on variance: Voice recognition behaves unpredictably moment to moment

Optimization3 vs 3

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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Doki Doki Literature Club!

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Hey You, Pikachu!