head to head
vs
Siren: Blood CursevsStarbound
Siren: Blood Curse leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Starbound leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Siren: Blood CurseStarbound
Axis by axis
Execution3 vs 3
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance4 vs 4
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization8 vs 7
Siren: Blood Curse leans harder on optimization: Episodic missions reduce to learnable route-and-timing puzzles
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.