head to head
vs
How Fish Is MadevsThe Stanley Parable
How Fish Is Made leans Variance (Light / Casual); The Stanley Parable leans Variance (Light / Casual).
How Fish Is MadeThe Stanley Parable
Axis by axis
Execution1 vs 0
How Fish Is Made leans harder on execution: Shuffling down a pipe takes nothing physical
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 2
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization1 vs 2
The Stanley Parable leans harder on optimization: Finding all branches is a trivial checklist
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.