head to head
vs
Civilization: Beyond EarthvsPatrician IV
Civilization: Beyond Earth leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Patrician IV leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Civilization: Beyond EarthPatrician IV
Axis by axis
Execution2 vs 1
Civilization: Beyond Earth leans harder on execution: Point-and-click turn actions; nothing physical
Reads2 vs 2
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance4 vs 3
Civilization: Beyond Earth leans harder on variance: Alien spawns and fog of war add manageable hidden elements
Optimization9 vs 9
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.