head to head
vs
DarkwoodvsOrgan Trail: Director's Cut
Darkwood leans Variance (Systems & Chaos); Organ Trail: Director's Cut leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).
DarkwoodOrgan Trail: Director's Cut
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 3
Darkwood leans harder on execution: night-defense reflexes under limited vision
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance6 vs 6
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization6 vs 7
Organ Trail: Director's Cut leans harder on optimization: Resource budgeting across the route is the real test
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.