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Summer of '58 cover artvsThe Walking Dead cover art

Summer of '58vsThe Walking Dead

Summer of '58 leans Variance (Light / Casual); The Walking Dead leans Variance (Light / Casual).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
Summer of '58The Walking Dead

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 2

Summer of '58 leans harder on variance: First-playthrough scares are unknown, then fully mapped

Optimization2 vs 2

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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Summer of '58

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The Walking Dead