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I Spy Spooky Mansion DeluxevsMurdered: Soul Suspect

I Spy Spooky Mansion Deluxe leans Variance (Systems & Chaos); Murdered: Soul Suspect leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

I Spy Spooky Mansion DeluxeMurdered: Soul Suspect

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 1

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 3

I Spy Spooky Mansion Deluxe leans harder on variance: Items are hidden in cluttered scenes to discover

Optimization3 vs 4

Murdered: Soul Suspect leans harder on optimization: Deduction sequences are guided puzzles with known answers

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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