head to head
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Star StablevsThe Wolf Among Us
Star Stable leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); The Wolf Among Us leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Star StableThe Wolf Among Us
Axis by axis
Execution2 vs 2
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads1 vs 0
Star Stable leans harder on reads: Other players coexist; little adversarial prediction
Variance2 vs 2
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization4 vs 5
The Wolf Among Us leans harder on optimization: Scene order and evidence collection allow minor optimisation of deduction paths
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.