head to head
vs
Five Nights at Freddy's 4vsThe Long Journey Home
Five Nights at Freddy's 4 leans Variance (Systems & Chaos); The Long Journey Home leans Variance (Systems & Chaos).
Five Nights at Freddy's 4The Long Journey Home
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 5
The Long Journey Home leans harder on execution: Manual orbital landings punish imprecise thrust control hard
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance6 vs 7
The Long Journey Home leans harder on variance: Procedural galaxies, events and crew injuries dominate runs
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.