Building comparison
head to head
Fallout SheltervsHer Story
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is reads, and it is a single point.
Fallout Shelter
Optimization · Pure Optimization
A vault management sim about optimising dwellers, rooms, and resource loops.
Her Story
Optimization · Systems & Chaos
A search-based detective game piecing together police interview footage.
Fallout Shelter leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Her Story leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).
Fallout ShelterHer Story
Axis by axis
Execution0 vs 0
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Fallout Shelter
Tapping menus only
Her Story
Typing search terms only.
Reads0 vs 1
Her Story leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Fallout Shelter
No opponent
Her Story
Subject is recorded, not adaptive.
Variance4 vs 5
Her Story leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Fallout Shelter
Incident spawns and lunchbox loot rolls
Her Story
Hidden clips revealed by guessed keywords.
Optimization7 vs 7
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Fallout Shelter
Dweller stats and room layout are fully solvable
Her Story
Efficient search strategy reconstructs the case.
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.