Building comparison
head to head
Sea of ThievesvsSecret Neighbor
Sea of Thieves asks more than Secret Neighbor, and the gap is execution.
Sea of Thieves
Reads · Competitive PvP
Open-world pirate game with PvPvE ship combat.
Secret Neighbor
Reads · Bluff & Deduction
Kids loot a house for basement keys while one of them is secretly the Neighbor in disguise.
Sea of Thieves leans Reads (Competitive PvP); Secret Neighbor leans Reads (Bluff & Deduction).
Sea of ThievesSecret Neighbor
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 4
Sea of Thieves leans clearly harder on execution.
Sea of Thieves
Ship sailing and naval gunnery require hands
Secret Neighbor
Chases, juking, and grabs need real motor skill.
Reads7 vs 7
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Sea of Thieves
PvP ship fights are pure mind games
Secret Neighbor
The disguised Neighbor wins by out-modeling suspicious kids.
Variance5 vs 6
Secret Neighbor leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Sea of Thieves
Server encounters, weather, loot vary
Secret Neighbor
Hidden Neighbor identity and random key spawns obscure information.
Optimization5 vs 4
Sea of Thieves leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Sea of Thieves
Routes, loadouts, ship setups solvable
Secret Neighbor
House layouts and key routes are mappable with play.
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.