Building comparison
head to head
inFamous Second SonvsThomas Was Alone
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
inFamous Second Son
Execution · Practiced Mastery
Open-world action game where a smoke-and-neon conduit liberates Seattle.
Thomas Was Alone
Optimization · Practiced Mastery
A minimalist puzzle platformer about cooperating rectangles, carried by warm narration.
inFamous Second Son leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Thomas Was Alone leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
inFamous Second SonThomas Was Alone
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 4
inFamous Second Son leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
inFamous Second Son
Fluid traversal and aimed particle powers
Thomas Was Alone
Light precision jumps per quadrilateral
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
inFamous Second Son
DUP enemies run fixed scripts
Thomas Was Alone
No opponent, narrated rectangles
Variance1 vs 0
inFamous Second Son leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
inFamous Second Son
Seattle sandbox is deterministic
Thomas Was Alone
Levels fully visible and fixed
Optimization5 vs 5
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
inFamous Second Son
Swapping power sets and upgrade routing
Thomas Was Alone
Sequencing each character's ability per 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.