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

Optimization · Pure Optimization
Hand-drawn puzzle where overlapping illustrated panels unlock impossible connections.

Optimization · Pure Optimization
A chain of self-contained logic brainteasers wrapped in a mystery story.
Gorogoa leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Gorogoa
Dragging panels requires no skill
Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy
Tapping answers takes no dexterity
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Gorogoa
No opponent exists
Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy
No opponent - puzzles are static brainteasers
Gorogoa leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Gorogoa
Solutions unknown on first encounter only
Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy
Puzzles are fixed; hidden only until read
Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Gorogoa
Each panel arrangement has one elegant solvable answer
Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy
Each brainteaser is a literally solvable logic problem
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.