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Hatoful Boyfriend cover artvsMurdered: Soul Suspect cover art

Hatoful BoyfriendvsMurdered: Soul Suspect

Hatoful Boyfriend leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Murdered: Soul Suspect leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION0 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Hatoful BoyfriendMurdered: Soul Suspect

Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 1

Murdered: Soul Suspect leans harder on execution: Walking and clue-clicking; demon stealth is trivial

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

Murdered: Soul Suspect leans harder on variance: Clues and case answers are hidden until found

Optimization4 vs 4

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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Murdered: Soul Suspect