Building comparison
head to head
Concrete GenievsPlanet of Lana
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
Concrete Genie
Optimization · Practiced Mastery
Gentle adventure about painting living murals to revive a polluted town.
Planet of Lana
Optimization · Practiced Mastery
Painterly cinematic puzzle platformer about a girl and her cat-like companion.
Concrete Genie leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Planet of Lana leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Concrete GeniePlanet of Lana
Axis by axis
Execution2 vs 3
Planet of Lana leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Concrete Genie
Light painting motions and gentle platforming
Planet of Lana
Gentle platforming and chase sequences
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Concrete Genie
No adversary; bullies are scripted scenes
Planet of Lana
Machines follow scripted 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.
Concrete Genie
Little hidden beyond exploration
Planet of Lana
Fully authored puzzles
Optimization4 vs 5
Planet of Lana leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Concrete Genie
Finding paintable walls and puzzle solutions
Planet of Lana
Companion-command puzzles have single 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.