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Sid Meier's Railroad TycoonvsSimCity (2013)
Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); SimCity (2013) leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Sid Meier's Railroad TycoonSimCity (2013)
Axis by axis
Execution1 vs 1
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads0 vs 0
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance3 vs 3
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization9 vs 8
Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon leans harder on optimization: Route profitability and stock manipulation are deeply 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.