Building comparison
head to head
DinkumvsL.A. Noire
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is optimization, and it is a single point.
Dinkum
Optimization · Systems & Chaos
Building an Australian outback town by solving its licence-gated crafting progression and visitor systems.
L.A. Noire
Optimization · Systems & Chaos
1940s detective procedural built around crime scenes and reading scripted interrogation tells.
Dinkum leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); L.A. Noire leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).
DinkumL.A. Noire
Axis by axis
Execution2 vs 2
Same score on execution - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Dinkum
Hunting and combat have light timing demands
L.A. Noire
Light shooting and driving, very forgiving
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Dinkum
Animals and NPCs use scripted, predictable behaviour
L.A. Noire
Suspects follow fixed scripts, never adapt
Variance4 vs 4
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Dinkum
Resource deposits and visiting merchant stock introduce moderate RNG
L.A. Noire
Interrogation tells and clues hidden until discovered
Optimization6 vs 5
Dinkum leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Dinkum
Town development, licence unlocks, and resource routing are solvable
L.A. Noire
Evidence chains and question choices have fixed correct 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.