Building comparison
head to head
The Order: 1886vsTomb Raider (2013)
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
The Order: 1886
Execution · Practiced Mastery
A cinematic Victorian cover shooter about knights hunting half-breeds with exotic weaponry.
Tomb Raider (2013)
Execution · Practiced Mastery
Lara's reboot blending cover shooting, climbing, and survival cinema.
The Order: 1886 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Tomb Raider (2013) leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
The Order: 1886Tomb Raider (2013)
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 5
Tomb Raider (2013) leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
The Order: 1886
Standard cover shooting with quick-time events
Tomb Raider (2013)
Bow aim, QTEs, and platforming timing matter.
Reads1 vs 1
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
The Order: 1886
Scripted setpiece enemies
Tomb Raider (2013)
Scripted enemy waves, no adaptation.
Variance1 vs 1
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
The Order: 1886
Heavily authored, nothing random
Tomb Raider (2013)
Minimal randomness in encounters.
Optimization4 vs 4
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
The Order: 1886
Linear encounters, light tactical layer
Tomb Raider (2013)
Weapon upgrades and skill picks straightforward.
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.