Building comparison
head to head
CreaksvsPortal
Portal asks more than Creaks, and the gap is execution.
Creaks
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Hand-painted puzzle adventure where light turns monsters into furniture.
Portal
Optimization · Pure Optimization
The portal-gun puzzle game whose solutions are everything.
Creaks leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Portal leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
CreaksPortal
Axis by axis
Execution2 vs 4
Portal leans clearly harder on execution.
Creaks
light timing on monster movement
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.
Creaks
no adaptive opponent
Portal
No adversary modeling player.
Variance1 vs 0
Creaks leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Creaks
puzzles fully visible once entered
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.
Creaks
each room is a solvable logic puzzle
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.