head to head
vs
Pogostuck: Rage With Your FriendsvsSerious Sam: The First Encounter
Pogostuck: Rage With Your Friends leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Serious Sam: The First Encounter leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Pogostuck: Rage With Your FriendsSerious Sam: The First Encounter
Axis by axis
Execution9 vs 8
Pogostuck: Rage With Your Friends leans harder on execution: Brutally precise pogo momentum control decides every climb
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 2
Serious Sam: The First Encounter leans harder on variance: Enemy placement is consistent across runs; no hidden information
Optimization4 vs 4
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.