Building comparison
head to head
Baldur's Gate 3vsProject Kat: Paper Lily Prologue
Baldur's Gate 3 asks more than Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue, and the gap is optimization.
Baldur's Gate 3
Optimization · Systems & Chaos
A D&D CRPG where build optimization and dice variance dominate every encounter.
Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue
Optimization · Systems & Chaos
A short horror puzzle that tests curiosity about hidden alternative solutions.
Baldur's Gate 3 leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).
Baldur's Gate 3Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue
Axis by axis
Execution1 vs 1
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Baldur's Gate 3
Turn-based; no input dexterity.
Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue
Top-down walking and menu choices only
Reads2 vs 0
Baldur's Gate 3 leans clearly harder on reads.
Baldur's Gate 3
Companions/enemies scripted, not adaptive to player modeling.
Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue
Scripted horror events, nothing models the player
Variance7 vs 4
Baldur's Gate 3 leans clearly harder on variance.
Baldur's Gate 3
Dice rolls, hidden checks, encounter RNG everywhere.
Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue
Hidden rules and alternate solutions are the hook until discovered
Optimization9 vs 5
Baldur's Gate 3 leans clearly harder on optimization.
Baldur's Gate 3
Builds, party comp, action economy fully solvable.
Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue
Puzzles reward experimenting toward fully mappable 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.