head to head
Neither is harder. They score identically on all four axes, so the difference between them is in kind, not degree.

Optimization · Pure Optimization
A split-timeline mystery where both investigators' Somnium puzzles must be solved in the right order.

Optimization · Pure Optimization
Decoding deliberately obscure puzzle triggers inside one repeating haunted hallway.
AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); P.T. leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative
Somnium sequences have light time-pressure interactions
P.T.
Walking a looping hallway - no dexterity test
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative
All story branches are predetermined scripts
P.T.
Lisa's hauntings trigger on hidden scripts, not adaptation
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative
Dual-protagonist hidden information creates route uncertainty
P.T.
Obscure trigger conditions are hidden information to map
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative
Charting both timelines to the true ending is a mappable deduction puzzle
P.T.
Deciphering the cryptic final puzzle is the entire game
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.