head to head
vs
Amnesia: The Dark DescentvsPurble Place
Amnesia: The Dark Descent leans Optimization (Light / Casual); Purble Place leans Variance (Light / Casual).
Amnesia: The Dark DescentPurble Place
Axis by axis
Execution2 vs 1
Amnesia: The Dark Descent leans harder on execution: Stealth and hiding, low demand.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 3
Purble Place leans harder on variance: Hidden face features and tile pairs are guess-then-map
Optimization3 vs 3
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.