Building comparison
head to head
Baldur's Gate 3vsTharsis
Baldur's Gate 3 asks more than Tharsis, and the gap is reads.
Baldur's Gate 3
Optimization · Systems & Chaos
A D&D CRPG where build optimization and dice variance dominate every encounter.
Tharsis
Variance · Systems & Chaos
Tests probability management as dice rolls repeatedly threaten a doomed Mars mission.
Baldur's Gate 3 leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Tharsis leans Variance (Systems & Chaos).
Baldur's Gate 3Tharsis
Axis by axis
Execution1 vs 0
Baldur's Gate 3 leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Baldur's Gate 3
Turn-based; no input dexterity.
Tharsis
Assigning dice needs no dexterity
Reads2 vs 0
Baldur's Gate 3 leans clearly harder on reads.
Baldur's Gate 3
Companions/enemies scripted, not adaptive to player modeling.
Tharsis
Disasters are random events, not an adapting mind
Variance7 vs 8
Tharsis leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Baldur's Gate 3
Dice rolls, hidden checks, encounter RNG everywhere.
Tharsis
Dice rolls and event draws brutally dominate each turn
Optimization9 vs 7
Baldur's Gate 3 leans clearly harder on optimization.
Baldur's Gate 3
Builds, party comp, action economy fully solvable.
Tharsis
Crew allocation and risk math are the counterplay
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.