head to head
vs
Mutant Year Zero: Road to EdenvsPokémon: Let's Go, Eevee!
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee! leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).
Mutant Year Zero: Road to EdenPokémon: Let's Go, Eevee!
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 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance5 vs 5
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization8 vs 7
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden leans harder on optimization: Stalker trait loadouts and pre-combat positioning are tight optimization puzzles
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.