Building comparison
head to head
Age of WarvsCocoon
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is reads, and it is a single point.
Age of War
Optimization · Pure Optimization
A simple economy-timing puzzle of when to spawn units and evolve ages.
Cocoon
Optimization · Pure Optimization
A surreal puzzle-adventure about nesting worlds inside orbs.
Age of War leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Cocoon leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Age of WarCocoon
Axis by axis
Execution2 vs 2
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Age of War
Clicking spawn buttons with decent timing suffices
Cocoon
Inputs are simple movement and a button.
Reads1 vs 0
Age of War leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Age of War
The AI follows predictable spawn logic
Cocoon
Puzzles are fixed designs.
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Age of War
Matches play out almost identically given same choices
Cocoon
No randomness.
Optimization6 vs 7
Cocoon leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Age of War
Unit economy and evolution timing decide the stalemate
Cocoon
Pure puzzle logic, solvable by reasoning.
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.