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Leaving Lyndow cover artvsLife is Strange: Before the Storm cover art

Leaving LyndowvsLife is Strange: Before the Storm

Leaving Lyndow leans Variance (Light / Casual); Life is Strange: Before the Storm leans Variance (Light / Casual).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION1 /10
Leaving LyndowLife is Strange: Before the Storm

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 0

Leaving Lyndow leans harder on execution: Walking and clicking through a short story

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization1 vs 2

Life is Strange: Before the Storm leans harder on optimization: Backtalk challenges have learnable correct lines

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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