head to head
Neither is harder. They score identically on all four axes, so the difference between them is in kind, not degree.

Optimization · Pure Optimization
An idle economy where optimal purchase order and room layout do everything.

Optimization · Pure Optimization
Telltale's episodic comedy adventure sending Guybrush Threepwood after a pox plaguing the Caribbean.
PewDiePie's Tuber Simulator leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Tales of Monkey Island 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.
PewDiePie's Tuber Simulator
Tapping menus requires nothing
Tales of Monkey Island
Click-driven; no physical demands.
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
PewDiePie's Tuber Simulator
No opponent exists to predict
Tales of Monkey Island
LeChuck and pirates are pure script.
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
PewDiePie's Tuber Simulator
Minor event RNG around video topics
Tales of Monkey Island
Modern design telegraphs most puzzle information.
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
PewDiePie's Tuber Simulator
View-per-cost room layouts and upgrade order are the entire game
Tales of Monkey Island
Episodic inventory puzzles each have one intended solution.
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.