Building comparison
head to head
DREDGEvsSherlock Holmes: The Awakened
Neither is meaningfully harder - they pose close to the same test. The widest gap is execution, and it is a single point.
DREDGE
Optimization · Systems & Chaos
A cosy-eldritch fishing game about hauling secrets from dark water.
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
Optimization · Systems & Chaos
Scripted detective work that tests gathering hidden clues and assembling the intended deduction.
DREDGE leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).
DREDGESherlock Holmes: The Awakened
Axis by axis
Execution2 vs 1
DREDGE leans a little harder on execution, though the gap is small.
DREDGE
Fishing minigames and night dodging, light demands
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
Walking and clicking through scenes, no twitch demands
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
DREDGE
Horrors follow fixed rules
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
The case is fully scripted, nothing models 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.
DREDGE
Fish spawns and fog-of-dread unknowns until mapped
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
Clues are hidden information until each scene is searched
Optimization6 vs 6
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
DREDGE
Cargo tetris, routes, and upgrades reward planning
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
Deduction chains have one solvable correct answer
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.