head to head
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom asks more than Immortals Fenyx Rising, and the gap is optimization.

Optimization · Practiced Mastery
Breezy open-world adventure romping through Greek myth puzzles and monsters.

Optimization · Pure Optimization
An open-world sandbox solved through creative build optimization and routing.
Immortals Fenyx Rising leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 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.
Immortals Fenyx Rising
Dodge timing and aerial combos
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Combat and traversal need modest timing
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Immortals Fenyx Rising
Mythic beasts follow fixed movesets
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
World is fixed, nothing adapts
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Immortals Fenyx Rising
Little randomness in the open world
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Weapon durability adds light variance
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom leans clearly harder on optimization.
Immortals Fenyx Rising
Vault puzzles, gear builds, and stamina routing
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Build contraptions and route the open world
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.