head to head
vs
Little Nightmares IIvsPumpkin Jack
Little Nightmares II leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Pumpkin Jack leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Little Nightmares IIPumpkin Jack
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 5
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 0
Little Nightmares II leans harder on variance: Minimal randomness.
Optimization4 vs 3
Little Nightmares II leans harder on optimization: Set-piece solutions are fixed.
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.