head to head
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! asks more than The Cat Lady, and the gap is execution.

Optimization · Practiced Mastery
Nintendo's daily mental-workout collection of arithmetic, reading, and memory drills.

Optimization · Pure Optimization
A dark adventure game about a suicidal woman granted immortality to hunt five psychopaths.
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); The Cat Lady leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! leans clearly harder on execution.
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
Fast writing and speech input under time pressure
The Cat Lady
Side-scrolling adventure controls require no dexterity
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
No opponent
The Cat Lady
The Parasites are story antagonists, not adaptive opponents
The Cat Lady leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
Problem sets are randomly drawn but simple
The Cat Lady
Mild unknowns in puzzle solutions on a blind playthrough
The Cat Lady leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
Mental arithmetic shortcuts and practice drive scores
The Cat Lady
Adventure-game puzzles have fixed discoverable solutions
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.