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Murdered: Soul Suspect cover artvsProject Kat: Paper Lily Prologue cover art

Murdered: Soul SuspectvsProject Kat: Paper Lily Prologue

Murdered: Soul Suspect leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Murdered: Soul SuspectProject Kat: Paper Lily Prologue

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 4

Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue leans harder on variance: Hidden rules and alternate solutions are the hook until discovered

Optimization4 vs 5

Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue leans harder on optimization: Puzzles reward experimenting toward fully mappable 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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Murdered: Soul Suspect

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Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue