head to head
vs
Police Quest III: The KindredvsZero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
Police Quest III: The Kindred leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Police Quest III: The KindredZero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward
Axis by axis
Execution1 vs 0
Police Quest III: The Kindred leans harder on execution: Driving sections are forgiving; mostly clicking
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance3 vs 3
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization8 vs 8
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.