Building comparison
head to head
Alice: Madness ReturnsvsMarvel's Spider-Man
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is optimization, and it is a single point.
Alice: Madness Returns
Execution · Practiced Mastery
Macabre Wonderland platformer where Alice slices through her own broken psyche chapter by chapter.
Marvel's Spider-Man
Execution · Practiced Mastery
Open-world superhero game whose joy is fluid web-swinging and rhythmic combat.
Alice: Madness Returns leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Marvel's Spider-Man leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Alice: Madness ReturnsMarvel's Spider-Man
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 5
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Alice: Madness Returns
Float-platforming and weapon-switch combat ask moderate precision
Marvel's Spider-Man
swinging flow and combat dodge timing
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Alice: Madness Returns
Wonderland enemies attack on fixed tells
Marvel's Spider-Man
thugs and bosses follow fixed patterns
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Alice: Madness Returns
Hidden collectibles are one-time discoveries
Marvel's Spider-Man
open world is fully discoverable
Optimization5 vs 4
Alice: Madness Returns leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Alice: Madness Returns
Weapon upgrades and enemy counters are quickly mapped
Marvel's Spider-Man
gadget loadouts and suit mods are shallow but present
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.