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Murdered: Soul Suspect cover artvsYesterday cover art

Murdered: Soul SuspectvsYesterday

Murdered: Soul Suspect leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Yesterday leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
Murdered: Soul SuspectYesterday

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 0

Murdered: Soul Suspect leans harder on execution: Walking and clue-clicking; demon stealth is trivial

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 5

Yesterday leans harder on optimization: Puzzles resolve to single authored 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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Murdered: Soul Suspect

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