Building comparison
head to head
DOOM (2016)vsSuper Meat Boy
Neither is simply harder - they are hard in different places. DOOM (2016) demands more optimization; Super Meat Boy demands more execution.
DOOM (2016)
Execution · Pure Mechanics
Push-forward arena FPS where movement and aim are the whole game.
Super Meat Boy
Execution · Pure Mechanics
A brutally precise platformer about dying thousands of times.
DOOM (2016) leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Super Meat Boy leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
DOOM (2016)Super Meat Boy
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 10
Super Meat Boy leans clearly harder on execution.
DOOM (2016)
Aim, movement, glory-kill timing all peak.
Super Meat Boy
Pure twitch platforming, frame-perfect jumps
Reads1 vs 0
DOOM (2016) leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
DOOM (2016)
Demons scripted attack patterns.
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.
DOOM (2016)
Minimal encounter randomness.
Super Meat Boy
Fully deterministic levels
Optimization5 vs 3
DOOM (2016) leans clearly harder on optimization.
DOOM (2016)
Rune and weapon mod picks meaningful.
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.