head to head
vs
Milon's Secret CastlevsPayday 2
Milon's Secret Castle leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Payday 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Milon's Secret CastlePayday 2
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 6
Payday 2 leans harder on execution: Sustained gunfights and stealth execution under pressure
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance5 vs 4
Milon's Secret Castle leans harder on variance: Progression hides behind unmarked secret blocks you must discover
Optimization6 vs 6
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.