head to head
vs
Fishing PlanetvsSid Meier's Pirates!
Fishing Planet leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Sid Meier's Pirates! leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Fishing PlanetSid Meier's Pirates!
Axis by axis
Execution3 vs 4
Sid Meier's Pirates! leans harder on execution: Sword duel timing and ship-handling minigames
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance5 vs 4
Fishing Planet leans harder on variance: Bite RNG and fish location uncertainty dominate sessions
Optimization7 vs 7
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.