head to head
vs
Risk of RainvsVagante
Risk of Rain leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Vagante leans Variance (Twitch Chaos).
Risk of RainVagante
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 6
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance6 vs 7
Vagante leans harder on variance: Procedural caves, unidentified items, random enemy placement
Optimization7 vs 6
Risk of Rain leans harder on optimization: Item stacking and time-pressure routing is solvable.
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.