Building comparison
head to head
Aliens: Colonial MarinesvsTomb Raider (2013)
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Execution · Practiced Mastery
A low-ceiling corridor shooter whose broken AI undercuts every skill test.
Tomb Raider (2013)
Execution · Practiced Mastery
Lara's reboot blending cover shooting, climbing, and survival cinema.
Aliens: Colonial Marines leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Tomb Raider (2013) leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Aliens: Colonial MarinesTomb Raider (2013)
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 5
Tomb Raider (2013) leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Standard shooter aim against infamously dumb xenomorphs
Tomb Raider (2013)
Bow aim, QTEs, and platforming timing matter.
Reads1 vs 1
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Broken AI barely follows its own scripts
Tomb Raider (2013)
Scripted enemy waves, no adaptation.
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Encounters are fixed and trivially learnable
Tomb Raider (2013)
Minimal randomness in encounters.
Optimization3 vs 4
Tomb Raider (2013) leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Loadout choices barely matter against weak opposition
Tomb Raider (2013)
Weapon upgrades and skill picks straightforward.
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.