head to head
vs
E.Y.E: Divine CybermancyvsStarfield
E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Starfield leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
E.Y.E: Divine CybermancyStarfield
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 5
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance4 vs 3
E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy leans harder on variance: Opaque systems, research rolls, and madness events confound newcomers.
Optimization8 vs 7
E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy leans harder on optimization: Cyberware, stats, and research trees are a dense solvable web.
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.