Building comparison
head to head
Elden RingvsLords of the Fallen (2023)
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is variance, and it is a single point.
Elden Ring
Execution · Practiced Mastery
An open-world soulslike about pattern-learning bosses while engineering a strong build.
Lords of the Fallen (2023)
Execution · Practiced Mastery
A souls-like won by parry timing and dual-realm build routing.
Elden Ring leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Lords of the Fallen (2023) leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Elden RingLords of the Fallen (2023)
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 8
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Elden Ring
Dodge timing and weapon spacing carry every fight.
Lords of the Fallen (2023)
Souls-like timing, parry and dodge windows
Reads1 vs 1
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Elden Ring
Bosses use scripted movesets with delayed timings, not adaptation.
Lords of the Fallen (2023)
Scripted bosses, no adaptation
Variance2 vs 1
Elden Ring leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Elden Ring
Open-world drops and rune farms add mild randomness.
Lords of the Fallen (2023)
Minor loot variance
Optimization8 vs 7
Elden Ring leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Elden Ring
Build crafting, routes, and boss patterns are deeply learnable.
Lords of the Fallen (2023)
Build, dual-realm routing, gear planning matter
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.