head to head
vs
Caesar IIIvsTransport Tycoon Deluxe
Caesar III leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Transport Tycoon Deluxe leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Caesar IIITransport Tycoon Deluxe
Axis by axis
Execution1 vs 1
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 2
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization9 vs 10
Transport Tycoon Deluxe leans harder on optimization: Signal logic and network throughput are literally an engineering problem
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.