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 cartoonish horde shooter sequel of planet-hopping monster massacres.
Cooking Simulator leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Serious Sam 2 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
Serious Sam 2
Sustained horde-clearing aim and strafing
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
Serious Sam 2
Enemy waves are entirely scripted
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
Serious Sam 2
Cartoon set-pieces surprise once
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
Serious Sam 2
Target priority and arena routes 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.