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I Spy Spooky Mansion Deluxe cover artvsSuperbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP cover art

I Spy Spooky Mansion DeluxevsSuperbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP

I Spy Spooky Mansion Deluxe leans Variance (Systems & Chaos); Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
I Spy Spooky Mansion DeluxeSuperbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 2

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP leans harder on execution: Simple timed parries are the only dexterity ask

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 2

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

Optimization3 vs 4

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP leans harder on optimization: Light environmental puzzles with gentle solutions

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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