Building comparison
head to head
Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London CasevsSamorost
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is reads, and it is a single point.
Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London Case
Optimization · Pure Optimization
A detective adventure about gathering clues to solve an authored murder case.
Samorost
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Poking a surreal contraption world until its hidden logic clicks.
Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London Case leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Samorost leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London CaseSamorost
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.
Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London Case
Point-and-click interaction needs no physical skill
Samorost
Clicking hotspots requires no dexterity
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
Samorost
No opponent of any kind exists
Variance2 vs 2
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London Case
Clues hidden until found, but fully authored
Samorost
Surreal solutions are hidden until experimented with
Optimization5 vs 6
Samorost leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London Case
Connecting evidence to solve the fixed case is the work
Samorost
Each screen is a small solvable contraption
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.