Building comparison
head to head
BeholdervsSherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments
Neither is harder. They score identically on all four axes, so the difference between them is in kind, not degree.
Beholder
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Dystopian management adventure about a landlord spying on tenants for a totalitarian state.
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments
Optimization · Pure Optimization
A detective adventure about gathering evidence and assembling deduction chains across six cases.
Beholder leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
BeholderSherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments
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.
Beholder
Simple point-and-click landlord actions
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments
Minor minigames, no real dexterity ceiling
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Beholder
Tenants follow scripted schedules, not adaptive
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments
Suspects are scripted, nothing adapts to you
Variance4 vs 4
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Beholder
Tenant events and directives surprise first runs
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments
Clues are hidden but fixed until discovered
Optimization7 vs 7
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Beholder
Money, time, and blackmail decision routing
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments
Deduction chains have correct solvable answers
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.