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Emily is Away cover artvsSummer of '58 cover art

Emily is AwayvsSummer of '58

Emily is Away leans Variance (Light / Casual); Summer of '58 leans Variance (Light / Casual).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Emily is AwaySummer of '58

Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 1

Summer of '58 leans harder on execution: Walking and camera pointing demand nothing

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

Summer of '58 leans harder on variance: First-playthrough scares are unknown, then fully mapped

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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