head to head
vs
Clock Tower 3vsDarkwood
Clock Tower 3 leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Darkwood leans Variance (Systems & Chaos).
Clock Tower 3Darkwood
Axis by axis
Execution3 vs 4
Darkwood leans harder on execution: night-defense reflexes under limited vision
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance5 vs 6
Darkwood leans harder on variance: procedural map and unknown night events
Optimization6 vs 6
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.