head to head
vs
A Difficult Game About ClimbingvsDirt Rally
A Difficult Game About Climbing leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Dirt Rally leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
A Difficult Game About ClimbingDirt Rally
Axis by axis
Execution9 vs 9
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 2
Dirt Rally leans harder on variance: Weather and surface degradation vary between stages
Optimization5 vs 6
Dirt Rally leans harder on optimization: Pacenote interpretation, setup tuning and stage memorisation
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.