head to head
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is reads, and it is a single point.

Optimization · Pure Optimization
Cargo-hauling odyssey where route planning and loadout matter most.

Optimization · Pure Optimization
Survival horror prequel built on swapping two characters with no item boxes.
Death Stranding leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Resident Evil 0 leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Death Stranding
Balance and traversal inputs, modest demands.
Resident Evil 0
Tank-control combat is modestly demanding
Death Stranding leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Death Stranding
BTs and MULEs scripted, predictable.
Resident Evil 0
Enemies follow fixed behaviour
Resident Evil 0 leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Death Stranding
Terrain, weather, BT spawns randomized.
Resident Evil 0
Hidden layouts surprise until mapped
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Death Stranding
Cargo loadouts, routes, structures highly solvable.
Resident Evil 0
Two-character item juggling makes routing the real game
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.