Building comparison
head to head
Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London CasevsPortal
Neither is simply harder - they are hard in different places. Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London Case demands more variance; Portal demands more execution.
Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London Case
Optimization · Pure Optimization
A detective adventure about gathering clues to solve an authored murder case.
Portal
Optimization · Pure Optimization
The portal-gun puzzle game whose solutions are everything.
Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London Case leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Portal leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London CasePortal
Axis by axis
Execution1 vs 4
Portal leans clearly harder on execution.
Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London Case
Point-and-click interaction needs no physical skill
Portal
Portal placement timing modest.
Reads1 vs 0
Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London Case leans a little harder on reads, though the gap is small.
Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London Case
Suspects are scripted, not adapting to your deductions
Portal
No adversary modeling player.
Variance2 vs 0
Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London Case leans clearly harder on variance.
Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London Case
Clues hidden until found, but fully authored
Portal
Deterministic chambers; no randomness.
Optimization5 vs 8
Portal leans clearly harder on optimization.
Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London Case
Connecting evidence to solve the fixed case is the work
Portal
Pure puzzle-solving optimization.
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.