Building comparison
head to head
PostalvsToy Story Mania!
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
Postal
Execution · Practiced Mastery
An early top-down rampage shooter with simple execution demands.
Toy Story Mania!
Execution · Pure Mechanics
A casual carnival pointing test with light high-score target memory.
Postal leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Toy Story Mania! leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
PostalToy Story Mania!
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 5
Toy Story Mania! leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Postal
top-down shooting and movement
Toy Story Mania!
Rapid target pointing and firing is the whole test
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Postal
enemies use fixed aggressive scripts
Toy Story Mania!
Galleries are scripted carnival sequences
Variance2 vs 2
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Postal
enemy spawn and pathing randomness
Toy Story Mania!
Bonus target spawns vary slightly between plays
Optimization3 vs 2
Postal leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Postal
weapon choice and route clearing
Toy Story Mania!
Learning high-value target locations adds thin strategy
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.