head to head
Sea of Thieves asks more than The Ship: Remasted, and the gap is execution.

Reads · Competitive PvP
Open-world pirate game with PvPvE ship combat.

Reads · Pure Mind Games
A social-stealth murder game about predicting and evading human hunters who hunt you.
Sea of Thieves leans Reads (Competitive PvP); The Ship: Remasted leans Reads (Pure Mind Games).
Sea of Thieves leans clearly harder on execution.
Sea of Thieves
Ship sailing and naval gunnery require hands
The Ship: Remasted
Attacks land easily; no aim-heavy ceiling
The Ship: Remasted leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Sea of Thieves
PvP ship fights are pure mind games
The Ship: Remasted
Stalking and evading a human hunter who models you is everything
Sea of Thieves leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Sea of Thieves
Server encounters, weather, loot vary
The Ship: Remasted
Hidden quarry identity adds investigative uncertainty
Sea of Thieves leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Sea of Thieves
Routes, loadouts, ship setups solvable
The Ship: Remasted
Needs management and weapon access reward planning
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.