Building comparison
head to head
Everlasting SummervsGone Home
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is variance, and it is a single point.
Everlasting Summer
Optimization · Light / Casual
A branching visual novel that tests little beyond exploring choice routes.
Gone Home
Optimization · Light / Casual
A first-person exploration about returning to an empty family home.
Everlasting Summer leans Optimization (Light / Casual); Gone Home leans Optimization (Light / Casual).
Everlasting SummerGone Home
Axis by axis
Execution0 vs 0
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Everlasting Summer
Reading and clicking choices, nothing physical
Gone Home
Pure walking and inspection.
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Everlasting Summer
No opponent - characters follow fixed branching scripts
Gone Home
No opponents.
Variance2 vs 1
Everlasting Summer leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Everlasting Summer
Route outcomes are hidden only until first playthroughs
Gone Home
Notes and items are fixed.
Optimization3 vs 2
Everlasting Summer leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Everlasting Summer
Mapping choice branches to endings is trivially solvable
Gone Home
Order of discovery hardly matters.
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.