Building comparison
head to head
Escape from Monkey IslandvsSamorost
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.
Samorost
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Poking a surreal contraption world until its hidden logic clicks.
Escape from Monkey Island leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Samorost leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Escape from Monkey IslandSamorost
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
Samorost
Clicking hotspots requires no dexterity
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
Samorost
No opponent of any kind exists
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
Samorost
Surreal solutions are hidden until experimented with
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
Samorost
Each screen is a small solvable contraption
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.