head to head
vs
Castle CrashersvsKingpin: Life of Crime
Castle Crashers leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Kingpin: Life of Crime leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Castle CrashersKingpin: Life of Crime
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 7
Kingpin: Life of Crime leans harder on execution: Quake-engine gunplay and locational damage aiming
Reads3 vs 2
Castle Crashers leans harder on reads: PvP arenas add light human-opponent reads
Variance2 vs 2
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization5 vs 5
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.