head to head
vs
BalatrovsDungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Balatro leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).
BalatroDungeon Crawl Stone Soup
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.
Variance7 vs 7
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization9 vs 9
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.