head to head
vs
Neon WhitevsNine Sols
Neon White leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Nine Sols leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Neon WhiteNine Sols
Axis by axis
Execution10 vs 9
Neon White leans harder on execution: Card-discarding movement tech is the entire game at maximum precision
Reads0 vs 1
Nine Sols leans harder on reads: Bosses follow learnable scripts
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization6 vs 6
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.