head to head
vs
Defend Your CastlevsDragon Age: Inquisition
Defend Your Castle leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Dragon Age: Inquisition leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Defend Your CastleDragon Age: Inquisition
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 3
Defend Your Castle leans harder on execution: Flicking enemies fast matters as waves intensify
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 2
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization6 vs 7
Dragon Age: Inquisition leans harder on optimization: Crafting, specialization, war table planning
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.