Building comparison
head to head
A Castle Full of CatsvsErica
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
A Castle Full of Cats
Optimization · Light / Casual
A hidden-object hunt rewarding patient visual scanning of dense scenes.
Erica
Variance · Light / Casual
A live-action FMV thriller steered through touchpad choices and gestures.
A Castle Full of Cats leans Optimization (Light / Casual); Erica leans Variance (Light / Casual).
A Castle Full of CatsErica
Axis by axis
Execution1 vs 0
A Castle Full of Cats leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
A Castle Full of Cats
Pointing and clicking at cats, nothing more
Erica
Touch gestures with no skill ceiling
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
A Castle Full of Cats
No opponent anywhere in the castle
Erica
No opponent
Variance2 vs 3
Erica leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
A Castle Full of Cats
Hidden cats are unknown positions until spotted
Erica
Branch outcomes hidden on first viewing
Optimization3 vs 3
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
A Castle Full of Cats
Methodical scene-sweeping solves it completely
Erica
Mapping choice branches across replays
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.