head to head
vs
Grand Theft AutovsMario Kart Tour
Grand Theft Auto leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Mario Kart Tour leans Variance (Systems & Chaos).
Grand Theft AutoMario Kart Tour
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 4
Grand Theft Auto leans harder on execution: Twitchy top-down driving and shooting under police pressure
Reads0 vs 1
Mario Kart Tour leans harder on reads: Mostly versus ghosts and bots, little live prediction
Variance3 vs 5
Mario Kart Tour leans harder on variance: Item rolls and gacha driver pulls swing scores
Optimization5 vs 5
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.