head to head
vs
SatisfactoryvsStephen's Sausage Roll
Satisfactory leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Stephen's Sausage Roll leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
SatisfactoryStephen's Sausage Roll
Axis by axis
Execution1 vs 2
Stephen's Sausage Roll leans harder on execution: Grid movement is exact but trivially precise to input
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 0
Satisfactory leans harder on variance: Resource nodes are fixed once mapped.
Optimization10 vs 10
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.