Building comparison
head to head
DOOM (2016)vsSnake II
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
DOOM (2016)
Execution · Pure Mechanics
Push-forward arena FPS where movement and aim are the whole game.
Snake II
Execution · Pure Mechanics
The Nokia classic testing steering discipline as the snake fills the screen.
DOOM (2016) leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Snake II leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
DOOM (2016)Snake II
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 7
DOOM (2016) leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
DOOM (2016)
Aim, movement, glory-kill timing all peak.
Snake II
Keypad steering an ever-longer snake is pure motor discipline
Reads1 vs 0
DOOM (2016) leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
DOOM (2016)
Demons scripted attack patterns.
Snake II
Solo - nothing opposes you
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
DOOM (2016)
Minimal encounter randomness.
Snake II
Food spawns are random but trivially handled
Optimization5 vs 4
DOOM (2016) leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
DOOM (2016)
Rune and weapon mod picks meaningful.
Snake II
Space-filling path patterns are known and 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.