head to head
DarkwoodvsFive Nights at Freddy's
Darkwood leans Variance (Systems & Chaos); Five Nights at Freddy's leans Variance (Systems & Chaos).
DarkwoodFive Nights at Freddy's
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 3
Darkwood leans harder on execution: night-defense reflexes under limited vision
Reads0 vs 1
Five Nights at Freddy's leans harder on reads: Animatronics follow RNG rules, not adaptive modeling
Variance6 vs 6
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
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.

