head to head
vs
Life is Strange: Before the StormvsSummer of '58
Life is Strange: Before the Storm leans Variance (Light / Casual); Summer of '58 leans Variance (Light / Casual).
Life is Strange: Before the StormSummer of '58
Axis by axis
Execution0 vs 1
Summer of '58 leans harder on execution: Walking and camera pointing demand nothing
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 3
Summer of '58 leans harder on variance: First-playthrough scares are unknown, then fully mapped
Optimization2 vs 2
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.