head to head
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.

Execution · Pure Mechanics
Sustained high-speed precision driving through traffic to chain boost without crashing.

Execution · Pure Mechanics
A 3D platformer whose joy lives in tight movement and capture-driven traversal.
Burnout Dominator leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Super Mario Odyssey leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Super Mario Odyssey leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Burnout Dominator
Holding boost chains through traffic demands sustained precise driving
Super Mario Odyssey
Precise platforming and capture-move tech ceiling.
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Burnout Dominator
AI racers are rubber-banded scripts
Super Mario Odyssey
No adaptive opponents whatsoever.
Burnout Dominator leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Burnout Dominator
Traffic patterns inject moderate unpredictability
Super Mario Odyssey
Almost no randomness in level design.
Super Mario Odyssey leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Burnout Dominator
Route choice and boost management are learnable per track
Super Mario Odyssey
Moon routes and movement tech 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.