head to head
vs
Road 96vsSong of Horror
Road 96 leans Variance (Systems & Chaos); Song of Horror leans Variance (Systems & Chaos).
Road 96Song of Horror
Axis by axis
Execution2 vs 2
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance6 vs 6
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization4 vs 5
Song of Horror leans harder on optimization: Safe zones, character skills and some event-trigger knowledge are learnable
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.