Building comparison
head to head
Bad RatsvsL.A. Noire
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
Bad Rats
Optimization · Systems & Chaos
Solving Rube Goldberg puzzles fighting physics that barely cooperates.
L.A. Noire
Optimization · Systems & Chaos
1940s detective procedural built around crime scenes and reading scripted interrogation tells.
Bad Rats leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); L.A. Noire leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).
Bad RatsL.A. Noire
Axis by axis
Execution1 vs 2
L.A. Noire leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Bad Rats
Placing pieces takes no dexterity
L.A. Noire
Light shooting and driving, very forgiving
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Bad Rats
No opponent - just rats and physics
L.A. Noire
Suspects follow fixed scripts, never adapt
Variance4 vs 4
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Bad Rats
Notoriously janky physics makes identical setups behave differently
L.A. Noire
Interrogation tells and clues hidden until discovered
Optimization6 vs 5
Bad Rats leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Bad Rats
Each contraption puzzle has intended solvable solutions
L.A. Noire
Evidence chains and question choices have fixed correct answers
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.