Building comparison
head to head
BlasphemousvsPrince of Persia: The Lost Crown
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
Blasphemous
Execution · Practiced Mastery
A grim 2D action metroidvania steeped in religious horror.
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
Execution · Practiced Mastery
A modern 2D Prince of Persia metroidvania.
Blasphemous leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
BlasphemousPrince of Persia: The Lost Crown
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 7
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Blasphemous
Punishing 2D combat and platforming
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
Precise parry-dodge-platforming combat
Reads1 vs 2
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Blasphemous
Scripted bosses
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
Scripted bosses with patterns
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Blasphemous
Static world
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
Deterministic world
Optimization5 vs 5
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Blasphemous
Rosary bead builds and routing
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
Amulet builds and routing
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.