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Resident Evil 7: Biohazard cover artvsSOMA cover art

Resident Evil 7: BiohazardvsSOMA

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); SOMA leans Optimization (Light / Casual).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 2

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard leans harder on execution: First-person aiming and blocking under Molded pressure matters

Reads1 vs 0

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard leans harder on reads: Family AI follows scripted stalker scripts, never adapts to you

Variance3 vs 2

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard leans harder on variance: Limited item locations are unknown on first visits

Optimization7 vs 3

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard leans harder on optimization: Resource crafting, tape management and route sequencing are fully learnable

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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