Building comparison
head to head
Gone HomevsHome
Neither is harder. They score identically on all four axes, so the difference between them is in kind, not degree.
Gone Home
Optimization · Light / Casual
A first-person exploration about returning to an empty family home.
Home
Optimization · Light / Casual
A choose-your-interpretation pixel mystery that tests attention, not skill.
Gone Home leans Optimization (Light / Casual); Home leans Optimization (Light / Casual).
Gone HomeHome
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.
Gone Home
Pure walking and inspection.
Home
Walking and examining need nothing
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Gone Home
No opponents.
Home
No adversary in this introspective mystery
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Gone Home
Notes and items are fixed.
Home
Your choices shape the story but nothing is random
Optimization2 vs 2
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Gone Home
Order of discovery hardly matters.
Home
Interpretation, not solution - barely a system exists
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.