Building comparison
head to head
Tales of Monkey IslandvsThe Cat Lady
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
Tales of Monkey Island
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Telltale's episodic comedy adventure sending Guybrush Threepwood after a pox plaguing the Caribbean.
The Cat Lady
Optimization · Pure Optimization
A dark adventure game about a suicidal woman granted immortality to hunt five psychopaths.
Tales of Monkey Island leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); The Cat Lady leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Tales of Monkey IslandThe Cat Lady
Axis by axis
Execution0 vs 1
The Cat Lady leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Tales of Monkey Island
Click-driven; no physical demands.
The Cat Lady
Side-scrolling adventure controls require no dexterity
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Tales of Monkey Island
LeChuck and pirates are pure script.
The Cat Lady
The Parasites are story antagonists, not adaptive opponents
Variance2 vs 2
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Tales of Monkey Island
Modern design telegraphs most puzzle information.
The Cat Lady
Mild unknowns in puzzle solutions on a blind playthrough
Optimization5 vs 6
The Cat Lady leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Tales of Monkey Island
Episodic inventory puzzles each have one intended solution.
The Cat Lady
Adventure-game puzzles have fixed discoverable solutions
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.