head to head
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is reads, and it is a single point.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
Sega's arcade fantasy brawler of barbarians, dragons, and gnome-kicking for potions.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
An open-world LEGO arcade racer with transforming vehicles and item-based races.
Golden Axe leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); LEGO 2K Drive leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Golden Axe
Spacing, throws, and mount control under arcade pressure
LEGO 2K Drive
Drifting, boosting and transform timing reward skilled hands
LEGO 2K Drive leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Golden Axe
Enemies are scripted; only co-op adds human texture
LEGO 2K Drive
Online races add light human positioning play
LEGO 2K Drive leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Golden Axe
Enemy mixes vary little between credits
LEGO 2K Drive
Item pickups inject kart-racer randomness
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Golden Axe
Wave patterns and magic usage are fully learnable
LEGO 2K Drive
Vehicle builds and racing lines are learnable
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.