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Gone Home cover artvsMiitomo cover art

Gone HomevsMiitomo

Gone Home leans Optimization (Light / Casual); Miitomo leans Reads (Light / Casual).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 0

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 1

Miitomo leans harder on reads: Light social guessing about friends' answers, never competitive

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization2 vs 1

Gone Home leans harder on optimization: Order of discovery hardly matters.

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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