Building comparison
head to head
Another Lost Phone: Laura's StoryvsOrwell: Keeping an Eye on You
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is variance, and it is a single point.
Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story
Optimization · Systems & Chaos
Piecing together a stranger's life from hidden information scattered across a simulated phone.
Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You
Optimization · Systems & Chaos
Surveillance thriller where you decide which citizens' secrets to report to the state.
Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).
Another Lost Phone: Laura's StoryOrwell: Keeping an Eye on You
Axis by axis
Execution0 vs 0
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story
Tapping through phone menus has no physical demand
Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You
Reading and clicking documents only
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story
No opponent - a fixed narrative to uncover
Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You
Story characters are scripted, not adaptive
Variance5 vs 4
Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story
Hidden messages and passwords are unknown until pieced together
Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You
Truth is hidden until you uncover contradicting datachunks
Optimization6 vs 5
Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story
Linking clues across apps is a solvable deduction puzzle
Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You
Choosing which evidence to upload steers fixed outcomes
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.