head to head
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown asks more than Mount Your Friends, and the gap is optimization.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
A modern arcade flight game of high-speed dogfights, drones, and dramatic canyon runs.

Execution · Pure Mechanics
Absurd physics limb control tested under a timer atop a tower of friends.
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Mount Your Friends leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Mount Your Friends leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
Tight dogfighting and missile-dodge timing
Mount Your Friends
QWOP-like limb control under a timer is the entire challenge
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
Campaign AI scripted; small PvP scene adds little
Mount Your Friends
Rivals shape the tower but climbing is solo execution
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
Cloud cover gimmicks are learnable
Mount Your Friends
The stack you face is visible, nothing hidden
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown leans clearly harder on optimization.
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
Aircraft tree and loadout routing matter
Mount Your Friends
Grip-route planning up the pile helps marginally
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.