Building comparison
head to head
Grand Theft Auto VvsSuper Mario Run
Grand Theft Auto V asks more than Super Mario Run, and the gap is reads.
Grand Theft Auto V
Execution · Practiced Mastery
Sandbox crime playground spanning shooting, driving, and a persistent online economy.
Super Mario Run
Execution · Practiced Mastery
One-thumb tap-timing precision over fixed courses with solvable coin routes.
Grand Theft Auto V leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Super Mario Run leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Grand Theft Auto VSuper Mario Run
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 6
Super Mario Run leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Grand Theft Auto V
Driving and shooting demand decent inputs.
Super Mario Run
One-handed tap timing for coin lines demands precision
Reads2 vs 0
Grand Theft Auto V leans clearly harder on reads.
Grand Theft Auto V
Online PvP exists but mostly gear/positioning, not modeling.
Super Mario Run
Auto-runner with no adaptive opponent; Toad Rally is asynchronous
Variance2 vs 1
Grand Theft Auto V leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Grand Theft Auto V
Some mission and lobby randomness.
Super Mario Run
Courses are fixed and fully learnable
Optimization4 vs 4
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Grand Theft Auto V
Heists, money loops, builds learnable.
Super Mario Run
Routing perfect coin runs is a solvable layout puzzle
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.