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Little Nightmares cover artvsPostal cover art

Little NightmaresvsPostal

Little Nightmares leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Postal leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Little NightmaresPostal

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 4

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Postal leans harder on variance: enemy spawn and pathing randomness

Optimization4 vs 3

Little Nightmares leans harder on optimization: Routes have fixed 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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