Building comparison
head to head
American Truck SimulatorvsThief: Deadly Shadows
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is variance, and it is a single point.
American Truck Simulator
Optimization · Pure Optimization
American trucking sim about long hauls and growth.
Thief: Deadly Shadows
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Pure stealth game about reading light and sound to ghost through guarded mansions unseen.
American Truck Simulator leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Thief: Deadly Shadows leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
American Truck SimulatorThief: Deadly Shadows
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 4
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
American Truck Simulator
Truck handling and trailer parking
Thief: Deadly Shadows
Quiet movement and timing windows need care, not twitch
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
American Truck Simulator
No adaptive opponents
Thief: Deadly Shadows
Guards follow scripted patrols and alert states
Variance2 vs 3
Thief: Deadly Shadows leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
American Truck Simulator
Traffic and weather variance
Thief: Deadly Shadows
Unknown layouts hide loot until first playthrough
Optimization7 vs 8
Thief: Deadly Shadows leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
American Truck Simulator
Fleet, garages, route economics
Thief: Deadly Shadows
Light, sound, and route mastery makes ghosting solvable
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.