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Fobia: St. Dinfna Hotel cover artvsSteamWorld Dig cover art

Fobia: St. Dinfna HotelvsSteamWorld Dig

Fobia: St. Dinfna Hotel leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); SteamWorld Dig leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION3 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Fobia: St. Dinfna HotelSteamWorld Dig

Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 4

SteamWorld Dig leans harder on execution: Digging and platforming need modest precision

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 4

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 6

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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Fobia: St. Dinfna Hotel

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SteamWorld Dig