head to head
Neither is simply harder - they are hard in different places. A Story About My Uncle demands more execution; The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt demands more optimization.

Execution · Practiced Mastery
A non-violent platformer testing grappling-swing timing through fixed first-person courses.

Optimization · Practiced Mastery
A narrative action RPG where build planning matters more than reflex execution.
A Story About My Uncle leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
A Story About My Uncle leans clearly harder on execution.
A Story About My Uncle
Grappling-hook swings demand momentum timing and aim
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Combat timing matters but generous dodges forgive sloppy play.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
A Story About My Uncle
No opponents exist at all
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Enemies use fixed AI behaviours; no adaptation.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
A Story About My Uncle
Course layouts are fixed and visible
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Loot rolls and minor combat variance only.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt leans clearly harder on optimization.
A Story About My Uncle
Finding efficient swing lines through each cavern
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Builds, alchemy, and quest routing reward planning.
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.