head to head
New Star Soccer 5 asks more than Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, and the gap is variance.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
A sharpened medieval sim-RPG balancing sword timing with skill planning.

Optimization · Practiced Mastery
A football career sim balancing on-pitch aiming with off-pitch life management.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); New Star Soccer 5 leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
Refined directional combat, demanding inputs
New Star Soccer 5
Aiming shots and passes needs some precision
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
Enemy AI somewhat reactive
New Star Soccer 5
AI opponents don't adapt to model your play
New Star Soccer 5 leans clearly harder on variance.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
Skill check rolls under hood
New Star Soccer 5
Match outcomes and life events have randomness
New Star Soccer 5 leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
Skill, alchemy, and gear routing matter
New Star Soccer 5
Managing skills, relationships and career choices is the core
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.