head to head
Red Dead Redemption 2 asks more than Beasts of Maravilla Island, and the gap is execution.

Optimization · Practiced Mastery
A wildlife-photography adventure about triggering and capturing animal behaviours.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
A cinematic open-world western leaning on shooting feel and atmosphere.
Beasts of Maravilla Island leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Red Dead Redemption 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Red Dead Redemption 2 leans clearly harder on execution.
Beasts of Maravilla Island
Gentle platforming and photo framing, low precision
Red Dead Redemption 2
Gunplay and Dead Eye reward aim and timing.
Red Dead Redemption 2 leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Beasts of Maravilla Island
Animals follow scripted behaviour, no adaptation
Red Dead Redemption 2
Enemies use scripted AI patterns, not adaptation.
Red Dead Redemption 2 leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Beasts of Maravilla Island
Creature behaviours fixed once observed
Red Dead Redemption 2
Some hunting and weather randomness, lightly hidden.
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Beasts of Maravilla Island
Solving how to trigger and photograph behaviours
Red Dead Redemption 2
Loadouts and routes solvable but loose.
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.