Building comparison
head to head
Alekhine's GunvsPortal
Alekhine's Gun asks more than Portal, and the gap is variance.
Alekhine's Gun
Optimization · Pure Optimization
A Hitman-style Cold War stealth game about a KGB assassin working sandboxed kill missions.
Portal
Optimization · Pure Optimization
The portal-gun puzzle game whose solutions are everything.
Alekhine's Gun leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Portal leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Alekhine's GunPortal
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 4
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Alekhine's Gun
Timing takedowns matters less than planning them
Portal
Portal placement timing modest.
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Alekhine's Gun
NPC routines are clockwork, never reactive learning
Portal
No adversary modeling player.
Variance3 vs 0
Alekhine's Gun leans clearly harder on variance.
Alekhine's Gun
First visits hide patrol routines and disguise rules
Portal
Deterministic chambers; no randomness.
Optimization8 vs 8
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Alekhine's Gun
Mapping routines and disguises reduces missions to solved puzzles
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.