head to head
Fallout: New Vegas asks more than Escape Academy, and the gap is execution.

Optimization · Pure Optimization
Co-op escape room game framed as a school for competitive escapists.

Optimization · Pure Optimization
A faction-driven RPG-shooter where build and route planning shape every ending.
Escape Academy leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Fallout: New Vegas leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Fallout: New Vegas leans clearly harder on execution.
Escape Academy
Pointing and clicking under a soft timer
Fallout: New Vegas
Shooter inputs with VATS assist
Fallout: New Vegas leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Escape Academy
No opponent
Fallout: New Vegas
Scripted factions and enemies
Escape Academy leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Escape Academy
Puzzle solutions hidden until discovered
Fallout: New Vegas
Some loot and crit RNG
Fallout: New Vegas leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Escape Academy
Each room is a fixed, fully solvable puzzle chain
Fallout: New Vegas
Faction routing, perks, builds heavily rewarded
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.