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 · Systems & Chaos
A search-based detective game piecing together police interview footage.

Optimization · Systems & Chaos
Sifting hidden documents and deducing which evidence shapes the scripted story.
Her Story leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Orwell: Ignorance is Strength leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Her Story
Typing search terms only.
Orwell: Ignorance is Strength
Reading documents and dragging datachunks needs no dexterity
Her Story leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Her Story
Subject is recorded, not adaptive.
Orwell: Ignorance is Strength
Characters follow scripted branches, not adaptive minds
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Her Story
Hidden clips revealed by guessed keywords.
Orwell: Ignorance is Strength
The story is hidden information you gradually surface
Her Story leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Her Story
Efficient search strategy reconstructs the case.
Orwell: Ignorance is Strength
Choosing which evidence to upload is a solvable deduction puzzle
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.