head to head
vs
How Fish Is MadevsVirginia
How Fish Is Made leans Variance (Light / Casual); Virginia leans Variance (Light / Casual).
How Fish Is MadeVirginia
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 1
How Fish Is Made leans harder on variance: Surreal encounters are scripted-but-unknown the first time
Optimization1 vs 1
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.