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Emily is Away cover artvsSeptember 7th cover art

Emily is AwayvsSeptember 7th

Emily is Away leans Variance (Light / Casual); September 7th leans Variance (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Emily is AwaySeptember 7th

Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 1

September 7th leans harder on execution: Walking an apartment requires nothing

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 4

September 7th leans harder on variance: Event sequence is scripted-but-unknown on the single run

Optimization2 vs 2

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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Emily is Away

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September 7th