Building comparison
head to head
Hitman GovsPortal
Portal asks more than Hitman Go, and the gap is execution.
Hitman Go
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Board-game distillation of Hitman into elegant fully-solvable turn puzzles.
Portal
Optimization · Pure Optimization
The portal-gun puzzle game whose solutions are everything.
Hitman Go leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Portal leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Hitman GoPortal
Axis by axis
Execution0 vs 4
Portal leans clearly harder on execution.
Hitman Go
Turn-based taps, zero dexterity
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.
Hitman Go
Enemy pieces move on fixed deterministic rules
Portal
No adversary modeling player.
Variance0 vs 0
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Hitman Go
All information visible on the board
Portal
Deterministic chambers; no randomness.
Optimization9 vs 8
Hitman Go leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Hitman Go
Each diorama is a literally solvable movement 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.