Building comparison
head to head
Escape from Monkey IslandvsRusty Lake Hotel
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
Escape from Monkey Island
Optimization · Pure Optimization
A comedic point-and-click adventure of pirate puzzles with fixed solutions.
Rusty Lake Hotel
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Untangling surreal fixed puzzle chains room by macabre room.
Escape from Monkey Island leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Rusty Lake Hotel leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Escape from Monkey IslandRusty Lake Hotel
Axis by axis
Execution1 vs 0
Escape from Monkey Island leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Escape from Monkey Island
Pointing and walking only
Rusty Lake Hotel
Pointing and clicking - no dexterity involved
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
Rusty Lake Hotel
No opponents, only macabre puzzle rooms
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
Rusty Lake Hotel
Solutions are hidden until discovered, then fixed
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
Rusty Lake Hotel
Chaining surreal puzzle logic per room 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.