head to head
vs
Orwell: Keeping an Eye on YouvsPlatform 8
Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Platform 8 leans Variance (Systems & Chaos).
Orwell: Keeping an Eye on YouPlatform 8
Axis by axis
Execution0 vs 1
Platform 8 leans harder on execution: Walking a train carriage requires nothing physical
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance4 vs 6
Platform 8 leans harder on variance: Spotting which anomaly spawned is hidden-information detection
Optimization5 vs 5
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.