head to head
Neither is harder. They score identically on all four axes, so the difference between them is in kind, not degree.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
Managing kitchen workflow through deliberately fiddly physics-based food handling.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
A post-apocalyptic Far Cry spinoff adding light RPG tiers to outpost raids.
Cooking Simulator leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Far Cry New Dawn leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Cooking Simulator
Physics-based chopping and plating punishes clumsy hands
Far Cry New Dawn
Standard Far Cry gunplay
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Cooking Simulator
Orders arrive from a queue, not a mind
Far Cry New Dawn
Scripted raider AI
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Cooking Simulator
Order flow randomizes mildly per shift
Far Cry New Dawn
Expedition loot rolls
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Cooking Simulator
Kitchen workflow and recipe routines are learnable systems
Far Cry New Dawn
Outpost escalation and light RPG gear tiers
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.