Building comparison
head to head
Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London CasevsThe Cat Lady
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.
The Cat Lady
Optimization · Pure Optimization
A dark adventure game about a suicidal woman granted immortality to hunt five psychopaths.
Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London Case leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); The Cat Lady leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London CaseThe 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.
Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London Case
Point-and-click interaction needs no physical skill
The Cat Lady
Side-scrolling adventure controls require 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
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.
Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot - The London Case
Clues hidden until found, but fully authored
The Cat Lady
Mild unknowns in puzzle solutions on a blind playthrough
Optimization5 vs 6
The Cat Lady 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
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.