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
LucasArts adventure sending Indy down three routes toward Atlantis.

Optimization · Pure Optimization
A courtroom drama where finding the single correct piece of evidence to shatter each witness's testimony is the loop.
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Pointing and clicking, light fistfight option
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Menu-based courtroom; zero physical skill
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
No adaptive opposition
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Witnesses follow scripted testimony; no adaptive opponent
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Solutions hidden until reasoned out
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Hidden contradictions in testimony are unknown until pressed
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Three-path puzzle chains reward deduction
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Identifying the precise contradiction and presenting the correct evidence is fully solvable
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.