Building comparison
head to head
Bad PiggiesvsSuperliminal
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is variance, and it is a single point.
Bad Piggies
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Tests physics contraption engineering against fixed puzzle levels.
Superliminal
Optimization · Pure Optimization
A perspective puzzle game where objects resize to match how they look when you set them down.
Bad Piggies leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Superliminal leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Bad PiggiesSuperliminal
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.
Bad Piggies
Light steering of contraptions after building
Superliminal
Forced-perspective placement needs light spatial precision
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Bad Piggies
No opponent of any kind
Superliminal
No opponent; solo perspective puzzle
Variance1 vs 0
Bad Piggies leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Bad Piggies
Levels are fixed and repeatable
Superliminal
All rooms are deterministic
Optimization7 vs 7
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Bad Piggies
Contraption engineering for three-star solutions is the game
Superliminal
Understanding forced-perspective growth rules to size objects into the correct shape
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.