head to head
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle asks more than Red Dead Redemption 2, and the gap is optimization.

Optimization · Practiced Mastery
First-person Indy adventure sneaking and punching across 1937's mystery sites.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
A cinematic open-world western leaning on shooting feel and atmosphere.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Red Dead Redemption 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Red Dead Redemption 2 leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
First-person brawling and stealth timing
Red Dead Redemption 2
Gunplay and Dead Eye reward aim and timing.
Red Dead Redemption 2 leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Fascist guards follow mappable AI
Red Dead Redemption 2
Enemies use scripted AI patterns, not adaptation.
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 Great Circle
Guard layouts surprise on first infiltration
Red Dead Redemption 2
Some hunting and weather randomness, lightly hidden.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle leans clearly harder on optimization.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Puzzle shrines and stealth route planning
Red Dead Redemption 2
Loadouts and routes solvable but loose.
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.