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Iron Lung cover artvsSOMA cover art

Iron LungvsSOMA

Iron Lung leans Variance (Light / Casual); SOMA leans Optimization (Light / Casual).

EXECUTION2 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Iron LungSOMA

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 2

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

Iron Lung leans harder on variance: Blind navigation; you see only camera snapshots

Optimization3 vs 3

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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