Building comparison
head to head
DOOM (2016)vsStar Fox
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
DOOM (2016)
Execution · Pure Mechanics
Push-forward arena FPS where movement and aim are the whole game.
Star Fox
Execution · Practiced Mastery
A rail shooter testing reflex execution against fully memorisable enemy waves.
DOOM (2016) leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Star Fox leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
DOOM (2016)Star Fox
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 7
DOOM (2016) leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
DOOM (2016)
Aim, movement, glory-kill timing all peak.
Star Fox
Dodging, shooting and barrel rolls on rails demand reflexes
Reads1 vs 0
DOOM (2016) leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
DOOM (2016)
Demons scripted attack patterns.
Star Fox
Every enemy wave is a fixed scripted pattern
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
DOOM (2016)
Minimal encounter randomness.
Star Fox
Routes and spawns are deterministic per path
Optimization5 vs 5
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
DOOM (2016)
Rune and weapon mod picks meaningful.
Star Fox
Memorising wave patterns and route choices for score
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.