Building comparison
head to head
Bad PiggiesvsWorld of Goo
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
Bad Piggies
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Tests physics contraption engineering against fixed puzzle levels.
World of Goo
Optimization · Pure Optimization
A physics puzzle game about building wobbly towers and bridges from living goo balls.
Bad Piggies leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); World of Goo leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Bad PiggiesWorld of Goo
Axis by axis
Execution2 vs 3
World of Goo leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Bad Piggies
Light steering of contraptions after building
World of Goo
Placing goo balls needs only mild 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
World of Goo
No opponent exists
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Bad Piggies
Levels are fixed and repeatable
World of Goo
Physics are visible and deterministic
Optimization7 vs 8
World of Goo leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Bad Piggies
Contraption engineering for three-star solutions is the game
World of Goo
Tower structure and goo economy are solvable per level
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.