Building comparison
head to head
Borderlands 2vsReigns: Her Majesty
Borderlands 2 asks more than Reigns: Her Majesty, and the gap is execution.
Borderlands 2
Optimization · Systems & Chaos
Loot-shooter RPG built on gear chasing.
Reigns: Her Majesty
Optimization · Systems & Chaos
Balancing faction meters against random card draws, one binary swipe at a time.
Borderlands 2 leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Reigns: Her Majesty leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).
Borderlands 2Reigns: Her Majesty
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 0
Borderlands 2 leans clearly harder on execution.
Borderlands 2
Aim matters but generous hit feel
Reigns: Her Majesty
Swiping left or right is the entire physical demand
Reads1 vs 0
Borderlands 2 leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Borderlands 2
Enemies are scripted loot fodder
Reigns: Her Majesty
Court characters are card scripts, not adapting opponents
Variance6 vs 5
Borderlands 2 leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Borderlands 2
Procedurally generated weapon drops vary
Reigns: Her Majesty
Card draws and unknown consequences drive each reign's fate
Optimization8 vs 6
Borderlands 2 leans clearly harder on optimization.
Borderlands 2
Skill trees and gear math heavily solved
Reigns: Her Majesty
Balancing four faction meters is a learnable solvable system
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.