| | Fade | Atlantis | Dry Gulch | Gilbert | Myst |
| Memory occupation? | 13.6M/~0 | 121M/~0 | 5.7M/~0 | 24M/~0 | 890k/~0 Flash player + 28M/0 main program |
| Genre | Text adventure with clickable images | FP view | Text adventure with static images | Lucasarts/Sierra | FP view |
| Maze? | - | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| 7th Guest-type of puzzles? | - | ? | ? | - | + |
| Speech with undertitles? | (no speech) | + | (no speech) | + | - |
| Number of save slots | 4, with date/place | 6, just a pic | 5 | many | 4? |
| In-game options (speaker volume etc) | - | - | - | + | It's Flash-based so it has very limited controls |
| In-game music | - | - (the same 2 tones) | - | + | Sometimes; ambient voice always |
| Authentication | - | Just once | PDA-based registration, also based on Handango token | In-game? | Just once |
| No. of images | ~300 + 130 zoomed mages | A lot | ? | | A lot |
| No. of sound effects | 109 | A lot; all is spoken | ? there are some | A lot | Almost always |
| Not hackable gfx/sound file format | -; can be freely browsed/hacked /overwritten | + | ? | + | + (haven't checked the Flash hackability) |
| Not readable text format | + | ? | + | + | + |
| Native VGA support? | - | - | - (the text is indeed rendered in VGA, but the images not) | - | -; text in books is VGA |
| WM2003SE / VGA compliance? | + (as of 1.09) | + | + | + (1.07; previous versions didn't) | + |