Building comparison
head to head
Captain Toad: Treasure TrackervsGunpoint
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Charming diorama puzzler about routing a jumpless Toad to each star.
Gunpoint
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Noir stealth puzzler about rewiring buildings so guards defeat themselves.
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Gunpoint leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Captain Toad: Treasure TrackerGunpoint
Axis by axis
Execution3 vs 2
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
Gentle navigation, no jumping, light timing
Gunpoint
Jump timing matters occasionally, lightly
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
No adaptive opposition anywhere
Gunpoint
Guards patrol on fixed scripts
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
Everything is visible and fixed
Gunpoint
Levels fully visible and deterministic
Optimization8 vs 7
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
Rotating dioramas to solve fixed route puzzles
Gunpoint
Crosslink rewiring puzzles have clean optimal 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.