Building comparison
head to head
Murdered: Soul SuspectvsProject Kat: Paper Lily Prologue
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is variance, and it is a single point.
Murdered: Soul Suspect
Optimization · Systems & Chaos
Guided detective clue-hunting with hidden answers and minimal challenge.
Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue
Optimization · Systems & Chaos
A short horror puzzle that tests curiosity about hidden alternative solutions.
Murdered: Soul Suspect leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).
Murdered: Soul SuspectProject Kat: Paper Lily Prologue
Axis by axis
Execution1 vs 1
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Murdered: Soul Suspect
Walking and clue-clicking; demon stealth is trivial
Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue
Top-down walking and menu choices only
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Murdered: Soul Suspect
Demons follow simple fixed patrols
Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue
Scripted horror events, nothing models the player
Variance3 vs 4
Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Murdered: Soul Suspect
Clues and case answers are hidden until found
Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue
Hidden rules and alternate solutions are the hook until discovered
Optimization4 vs 5
Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Murdered: Soul Suspect
Deduction sequences are guided puzzles with known answers
Project Kat: Paper Lily Prologue
Puzzles reward experimenting toward fully mappable answers
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.