Building comparison
head to head
D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die - Season 1vsSOMA
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is variance, and it is a single point.
D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die - Season 1
Optimization · Systems & Chaos
A stylised episodic mystery driven by investigation rather than skill.
SOMA
Optimization · Light / Casual
An underwater sci-fi horror about consciousness and identity.
D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die - Season 1 leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); SOMA leans Optimization (Light / Casual).
D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die - Season 1SOMA
Axis by axis
Execution2 vs 2
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die - Season 1
QTE swipes are forgiving and brief
SOMA
Light stealth, gentle inputs.
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die - Season 1
A fully authored mystery with no adaptive element
SOMA
Creatures follow scripts.
Variance3 vs 2
D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die - Season 1 leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die - Season 1
Clues and story turns are unknown on first pass
SOMA
Some hiding spot variation.
Optimization4 vs 3
D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die - Season 1 leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die - Season 1
Memento investigation and stamina budgeting add light structure
SOMA
Few systems to optimize.
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.