Building comparison
head to head
Escape from Monkey IslandvsMystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival
Neither is harder. They score identically on all four axes, so the difference between them is in kind, not degree.
Escape from Monkey Island
Optimization · Pure Optimization
A comedic point-and-click adventure of pirate puzzles with fixed solutions.
Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Hunting hidden objects and solving puzzles through a fixed mystery narrative.
Escape from Monkey Island leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Escape from Monkey IslandMystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival
Axis by axis
Execution1 vs 1
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Escape from Monkey Island
Pointing and walking only
Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival
Clicking objects has no twitch demand
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Escape from Monkey Island
No opponent
Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival
Solo with no opponent to model
Variance2 vs 2
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Escape from Monkey Island
Puzzle solutions hidden until discovered
Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival
Hidden objects are fixed, just unfound until searched
Optimization6 vs 6
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Escape from Monkey Island
Once known, every puzzle has one fixed answer
Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival
Solving puzzles and finding items is the entire loop
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.