head to head
vs
Remnant: From the AshesvsShovel Knight Dig
Remnant: From the Ashes leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Shovel Knight Dig leans Execution (Twitch Chaos).
Remnant: From the AshesShovel Knight Dig
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 7
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads1 vs 0
Remnant: From the Ashes leans harder on reads: Bosses are scripted movesets despite feeling adversarial.
Variance5 vs 5
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization6 vs 5
Remnant: From the Ashes leans harder on optimization: Build crafting and learned boss patterns converge to mastery.
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.