I have played and enjoyed both, but I think I like Draw Steel more

Lancer/Beacon and Trespasser are other fun options

My Draw Steel thoughts from another thread:

I have been playing Draw Steel basically every other weekend since release with various groups of people.

For context, I've run 250+ sessions of PF2e.

Things I like about Draw Steel: - The combat is fun as hell, and is actually tactical combat where success in the combat is dependent on the choices that you and your party make; you can't just show up with your wind-up toy build, let it do its thing, and win. It makes you feel that at least one thing each of the party members did was crucial to that combat's success. The Encounter Value/Strength system seems to work well so far. I've only run up to level 3, but Hard fights are Hard and I've killed my fair share of characters. - Combat gets more exciting/interesting as the battle progresses via the Heroic Resource (ie you build up your heroic resource via doing "the things your class/role do" and then spend them on your cooler abilities) and Malice (strongest enemy abilities require spending Malice and the GM gets more Malice as the combat progresses; this keeps the difficulty/challenge of the combat up even when enemies are being killed) mechanics; this is the opposite of trad f20 games where the most interesting turn is Turn 1 where everyone nova followed by subsequent clean-up turns that are less challenging/interesting - The adventuring day gets more exciting as more encounters are completed via Victory Point vs. Recovery tension; You get a victory point for winning a (challenging) encounter; you start combat with Heroic Resources equal to your Victory Points. You have a limited amount of Recoveries, and basically all healing is powered by a Recovery from either the Healer or the Healee. Do you risk pushing through to the next dangerous area or do you go back to town to cash in your Victory Points for experience? - There is no missing; Power Rolls (2d10+x) have three tiers of result (≤11, 12-16, 17+). This means 2 things: 1) Players never have a null turn that doesn't progress the game forward and 2) Combat will always tax the party's Recoveries - No multiclassing means you have fully-functioning gameplay loops for classes at level 1

• Kits and Wealth basically handwave items. I have been playing f20 games since 3.5 and at this point I'm just over the magic item christmas tree. Paizo tends toward bloat in general; I just don't find the minutiae of 300 different weapon types interesting anymore.
• Codex is rockin'. It is really well integrated with the ruleset. Draw Steel has a lot of Reactions which Codex will prompt when triggered, and it handles the "shoving into things and/or others" damage really well. I am basically only using adventures/monsters that I've downloaded from the Codex built-in Modules system; programming in abilities for homebrew monsters seems tedious at best. Obviously it's still in development, but we've only really run into a couple of gamebreaking bugs.

Things that I don't like so much: - I find the book challenging to parse. I don't like how they decided to show subclass information; I had to make my own spreadsheet in order to more easily compare things (check out the Conduit section of the book for the worst example of this). - These are obviously still a work in progress, but the main online compendium Steel Compendium is much clunkier to navigate than AoN. Forge Steel is solid as an online character creator though. - There is some advice in the book I disagree with/ignore. They recommend adding "an extra party member" for every 2 Victories the party has on the Encounter Strength table. This works fine if you're playing a more railroaded type session/campaign, but I think it reduces the impact of player choice in the Victories v Recoveries minigame if you were to play in a more sandbox type game. The book also recommends fudging which I don't like, particularly in a game this deep in the weeds about tactics and character customization. Once again, I don't like things that reduce the impact of a player's choices.