head to head
vs
Iron LungvsMurdered: Soul Suspect
Iron Lung leans Variance (Light / Casual); Murdered: Soul Suspect leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).
Iron LungMurdered: Soul Suspect
Axis by axis
Execution2 vs 1
Iron Lung leans harder on execution: Slow submarine piloting by coordinates
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance3 vs 3
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization3 vs 4
Murdered: Soul Suspect leans harder on optimization: Deduction sequences are guided puzzles with known answers
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.