head to head
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.

Optimization · Pure Optimization
A tactical action game about a robot uprising against humanity's remnants.

Optimization · Practiced Mastery
A real-time RPG carried by ascension-grid routing and magic crafting.
Evotinction leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Final Fantasy XV leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Final Fantasy XV leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Evotinction
squad control demands light tactical input
Final Fantasy XV
Real-time combat, modest input demand
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Evotinction
AI robots follow scripted combat behavior
Final Fantasy XV
Scripted enemies
Evotinction leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Evotinction
randomized encounters and mutation events
Final Fantasy XV
Loot and ascension variance
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Evotinction
squad and evolution system optimization
Final Fantasy XV
Ascension grid, magic crafting, party planning
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.