Building comparison
head to head
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About TimevsSuper Meat Boy
Super Meat Boy asks more than Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time, and the gap is execution.
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
Execution · Pure Mechanics
A demanding return to classic Crash platforming.
Super Meat Boy
Execution · Pure Mechanics
A brutally precise platformer about dying thousands of times.
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Super Meat Boy leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About TimeSuper Meat Boy
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 10
Super Meat Boy leans clearly harder on execution.
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
Brutal platforming with precise crate timing
Super Meat Boy
Pure twitch platforming, frame-perfect jumps
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
Scripted bosses
Super Meat Boy
No adaptive opponent
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
Deterministic levels
Super Meat Boy
Fully deterministic levels
Optimization4 vs 3
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
N. Verted and flashback routing
Super Meat Boy
Route memorization optimizes times
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.