head to head
vs
Summer of '58vsThe Stanley Parable
Summer of '58 leans Variance (Light / Casual); The Stanley Parable leans Variance (Light / Casual).
Summer of '58The Stanley Parable
Axis by axis
Execution1 vs 0
Summer of '58 leans harder on execution: Walking and camera pointing demand nothing
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance3 vs 2
Summer of '58 leans harder on variance: First-playthrough scares are unknown, then fully mapped
Optimization2 vs 2
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.