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Manual Samuel cover artvsOctodad: Dadliest Catch cover art

Manual SamuelvsOctodad: Dadliest Catch

Manual Samuel leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Octodad: Dadliest Catch leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Manual SamuelOctodad: Dadliest Catch

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Octodad: Dadliest Catch leans harder on execution: Deliberately clumsy limb controls are the whole challenge

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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Octodad: Dadliest Catch