Building comparison
head to head
Black Mirror III: Final FearvsStill Life
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is variance, and it is a single point.
Black Mirror III: Final Fear
Optimization · Systems & Chaos
Gothic adventure testing methodical puzzle solving through a fixed mystery plot.
Still Life
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Uncovering a fixed murder mystery through inventory puzzles and deduction.
Black Mirror III: Final Fear leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Still Life leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Black Mirror III: Final FearStill Life
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.
Black Mirror III: Final Fear
Pointing and clicking carries no physical ceiling
Still Life
Pointing and clicking carries no physical demand
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Black Mirror III: Final Fear
A scripted gothic mystery with no adapting adversary
Still Life
The killer is a fixed narrative, not an adapting opponent
Variance4 vs 3
Black Mirror III: Final Fear leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Black Mirror III: Final Fear
The mystery's truths are hidden until uncovered
Still Life
The mystery's facts are hidden until uncovered
Optimization6 vs 6
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Black Mirror III: Final Fear
Inventory puzzles have single fixed solutions
Still Life
Inventory puzzles and deduction steps have fixed solutions
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.