Building comparison
head to head
DeponiavsObduction
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is optimization, and it is a single point.
Deponia
Optimization · Pure Optimization
A chaotic comedy adventure whose elaborate multi-step puzzles test patience with absurd causal chains.
Obduction
Optimization · Pure Optimization
A Myst-successor puzzle adventure about decoding alien machinery across spliced worlds.
Deponia leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Obduction leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
DeponiaObduction
Axis by axis
Execution1 vs 1
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Deponia
Point-and-click with no timing elements
Obduction
Walking and clicking only
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Deponia
Comedy adventure with scripted characters throughout
Obduction
No opponents at all
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Deponia
Deterministic puzzle world with fixed solutions
Obduction
Deterministic alien machinery
Optimization8 vs 7
Deponia leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Deponia
Convoluted Rube Goldberg puzzle chains demand careful causal mapping
Obduction
Number-system and swap-machine puzzles are fully solvable
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.