Building comparison
head to head
DREDGEvsRaft
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is optimization, and it is a single point.
DREDGE
Optimization · Systems & Chaos
A cosy-eldritch fishing game about hauling secrets from dark water.
Raft
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Growing a floating base by solving resource chains and research order against scripted ocean threats.
DREDGE leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Raft leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
DREDGERaft
Axis by axis
Execution2 vs 2
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
DREDGE
Fishing minigames and night dodging, light demands
Raft
Shark hook-attacks require minimal timing
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
DREDGE
Horrors follow fixed rules
Raft
Shark and seagull AI are scripted with no player modelling
Variance4 vs 4
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
DREDGE
Fish spawns and fog-of-dread unknowns until mapped
Raft
Island loot tables and resource drift introduce randomness
Optimization6 vs 7
Raft leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
DREDGE
Cargo tetris, routes, and upgrades reward planning
Raft
Raft expansion, food chains, and research order are solvable systems
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.