head to head
vs
Shakes and FidgetvsThis Is the Police
Shakes and Fidget leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); This Is the Police leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Shakes and FidgetThis Is the Police
Axis by axis
Execution0 vs 1
This Is the Police leans harder on execution: Menu-driven dispatching, no dexterity
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance4 vs 4
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization6 vs 7
This Is the Police leans harder on optimization: Staffing, dispatch triage, and cash management solvable
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.