Building comparison
head to head
Black the FallvsSilent Hill: Homecoming
Neither is harder. They score identically on all four axes, so the difference between them is in kind, not degree.
Black the Fall
Optimization · Practiced Mastery
Solving fixed environmental puzzles by trial and error, with light timed stealth.
Silent Hill: Homecoming
Optimization · Practiced Mastery
A combat-forward Silent Hill entry with dodge-based melee and branching endings.
Black the Fall leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Silent Hill: Homecoming leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Black the FallSilent Hill: Homecoming
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 4
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Black the Fall
Some timed stealth and chase sections demand light precision
Silent Hill: Homecoming
Dodge-and-counter combat needs modest timing
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 the Fall
Guards and machines run fixed detection scripts
Silent Hill: Homecoming
Monsters attack on fixed patterns
Variance3 vs 3
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Black the Fall
Puzzle mechanics are unknown until each trial-and-error death
Silent Hill: Homecoming
First-run layouts and ambushes hide information
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 the Fall
Each room is a fixed puzzle with one solution
Silent Hill: Homecoming
Enemy patterns and routes are learnable
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.