Building comparison
head to head
Mystery Case Files: Fate's CarnivalvsThe Cat Lady
Neither is harder. They score identically on all four axes, so the difference between them is in kind, not degree.
Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Hunting hidden objects and solving puzzles through a fixed mystery narrative.
The Cat Lady
Optimization · Pure Optimization
A dark adventure game about a suicidal woman granted immortality to hunt five psychopaths.
Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); The Cat Lady leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Mystery Case Files: Fate's CarnivalThe Cat Lady
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.
Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival
Clicking objects has no twitch demand
The Cat Lady
Side-scrolling adventure controls require no dexterity
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival
Solo with no opponent to model
The Cat Lady
The Parasites are story antagonists, not adaptive opponents
Variance2 vs 2
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival
Hidden objects are fixed, just unfound until searched
The Cat Lady
Mild unknowns in puzzle solutions on a blind playthrough
Optimization6 vs 6
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Mystery Case Files: Fate's Carnival
Solving puzzles and finding items is the entire loop
The Cat Lady
Adventure-game puzzles have fixed discoverable solutions
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.