head to head
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is reads, and it is a single point.

Optimization · Pure Optimization
An action-RPG hybrid driven by crafting, specialization, and war-table routing.

Optimization · Pure Optimization
Narrative stealth puzzles solved by planning routes through scripted patrols.
Dragon Age: Inquisition leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Action-leaning combat, dodge timing matters
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream
Timing patrol gaps needs only modest dexterity
Dragon Age: Inquisition leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Scripted enemy behaviour
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream
Guards run fixed vision cones and routes
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Some loot randomization
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream
Each scene is fully readable before acting
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Crafting, specialization, war table planning
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream
Solving multi-character stealth routes is the whole game
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.