head to head
vs
Mutant Year Zero: Road to EdenvsNew Star Manager
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); New Star Manager leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Mutant Year Zero: Road to EdenNew Star Manager
Axis by axis
Execution3 vs 2
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden leans harder on execution: Stealth positioning before combat demands spatial precision
Reads1 vs 2
New Star Manager leans harder on reads: AI opponents follow systems, not adaptive mind-modelling
Variance5 vs 5
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization8 vs 8
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.