head to head
Mario Kart World asks more than Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, and the gap is reads.

Execution · Twitch Chaos
Kart racing blending drift execution with item RNG and pack positioning.

Execution · Twitch Chaos
Kart racing execution moderated by item randomness and learnable track routes.
Mario Kart World leans Execution (Twitch Chaos); Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed leans Execution (Twitch Chaos).
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Mario Kart World
Drift charging, rail grinding and shortcut precision reward hands
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Drift timing and transforming vehicle control reward practice
Mario Kart World leans clearly harder on reads.
Mario Kart World
Human racers bait items and contest lines in knockouts
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Human racers add light positional mind games
Mario Kart World leans clearly harder on variance.
Mario Kart World
Item rolls and rubber-banding scramble any single race
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Item rolls regularly upend race positions
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Mario Kart World
Course knowledge, shortcuts and item management converge with study
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Track shortcuts and drift-boost routes are learnable
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.