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Looking Up I See Only a Ceiling cover artvsMurdered: Soul Suspect cover art

Looking Up I See Only a CeilingvsMurdered: Soul Suspect

Looking Up I See Only a Ceiling leans Variance (Light / Casual); Murdered: Soul Suspect leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Looking Up I See Only a CeilingMurdered: 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.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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Looking Up I See Only a Ceiling

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Murdered: Soul Suspect