head to head
vs
Octodad: Dadliest CatchvsSnow Horse
Octodad: Dadliest Catch leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Snow Horse leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Octodad: Dadliest CatchSnow Horse
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 6
Octodad: Dadliest Catch leans harder on execution: Deliberately clumsy limb controls are the whole challenge
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 2
Snow Horse leans harder on variance: procedural obstacle generation
Optimization3 vs 3
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.