Building comparison
head to head
BullyvsMafia III
Neither is harder. They score identically on all four axes, so the difference between them is in kind, not degree.
Bully
Optimization · Practiced Mastery
Rockstar's open-world schoolyard adventure about surviving a corrupt boarding school.
Mafia III
Optimization · Practiced Mastery
Revenge-driven open-worlder dismantling a sixties crime empire district by district.
Bully leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Mafia III leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
BullyMafia III
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.
Bully
Brawling and minigames take modest reflexes
Mafia III
Stealth takedowns and gunfights
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Bully
Schoolyard AI is scripted
Mafia III
Racket guards follow fixed AI
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Bully
Open world is largely deterministic
Mafia III
Open world is static
Optimization5 vs 5
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Bully
Class minigames, schedules, and mission routing reward planning
Mafia III
District takeover loop and underboss assignments
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.