Building comparison
head to head
BullyvsOwlboy
Neither is harder. They score identically on all four axes, so the difference between them is in kind, not degree.
Bully
Optimization · Practiced Mastery
Rockstar's open-world schoolyard adventure about surviving a corrupt boarding school.
Owlboy
Optimization · Practiced Mastery
A lovingly pixelled aerial adventure where Otus carries gunner friends through floating islands.
Bully leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Owlboy leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
BullyOwlboy
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 4
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Bully
Brawling and minigames take modest reflexes
Owlboy
Flying and gunner-swapping in light combat
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Bully
Schoolyard AI is scripted
Owlboy
Scripted pirates and bosses
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Bully
Open world is largely deterministic
Owlboy
Hand-crafted, 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.
Bully
Class minigames, schedules, and mission routing reward planning
Owlboy
Boss patterns and secrets are learnable
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.