head to head
vs
Monaco: What's Yours Is MinevsThe Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); The Bureau: XCOM Declassified leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Monaco: What's Yours Is MineThe Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 4
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine leans harder on execution: Clutch escapes when heists go loud
Reads1 vs 0
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine leans harder on reads: Guards patrol on fixed logic
Variance3 vs 3
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization7 vs 7
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.