Building comparison
head to head
BesiegevsOrcs Must Die!
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
Besiege
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Physics sandbox about engineering medieval siege machines that usually explode beautifully.
Orcs Must Die!
Optimization · Pure Optimization
A third-person tower defense about funneling orc hordes into gleefully lethal trap corridors.
Besiege leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Orcs Must Die! leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
BesiegeOrcs Must Die!
Axis by axis
Execution3 vs 4
Orcs Must Die! leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Besiege
Piloting wobbly contraptions takes some hand skill
Orcs Must Die!
Active shooting supplements the traps
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Besiege
Static castles and scripted defenders
Orcs Must Die!
Orc waves follow fixed paths
Variance1 vs 2
Orcs Must Die! leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Besiege
Deterministic physics and fixed objectives
Orcs Must Die!
Minor wave composition randomness
Optimization8 vs 8
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Besiege
Machine engineering is the whole game
Orcs Must Die!
Trap placement and kill-corridor economics are the game
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.