head to head
vs
Silent Hill: DownpourvsThose Who Remain
Silent Hill: Downpour leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Those Who Remain leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).
Silent Hill: DownpourThose Who Remain
Axis by axis
Execution3 vs 2
Silent Hill: Downpour leans harder on execution: Improvised melee asks little mechanical skill
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance4 vs 5
Those Who Remain leans harder on variance: Unknown threats in darkness until the rules are learned
Optimization6 vs 6
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.