Building comparison
head to head
DishonoredvsThief
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
Dishonored
Optimization · Practiced Mastery
The first Dishonored: a stealth-action playground of layered powers.
Thief
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Planning stealth routes around fully mappable guard patterns.
Dishonored leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Thief leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
DishonoredThief
Axis by axis
Execution5 vs 4
Dishonored leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
Dishonored
Blink timing and combat inputs matter.
Thief
Movement timing matters but shadows forgive imprecision
Reads1 vs 0
Dishonored leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Dishonored
Guard AI scripted, non-adaptive.
Thief
Guards patrol fixed routes with mappable vision cones
Variance2 vs 2
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Dishonored
Patrol timings vary mildly.
Thief
Patrol layouts are scripted-but-unknown on first entry
Optimization7 vs 7
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Dishonored
Power combos and stealth routes solvable.
Thief
Route planning around guard patterns is the whole 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.