Building comparison
head to head
Lisa: The PainfulvsSherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
Neither is harder. They score identically on all four axes, so the difference between them is in kind, not degree.
Lisa: The Painful
Optimization · Pure Optimization
A bleak turn-based RPG where every gain costs you something permanent.
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Investigation and deduction-tree logic with token action interludes.
Lisa: The Painful leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Lisa: The PainfulSherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
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.
Lisa: The Painful
Timed button inputs spice up turn combat
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
Occasional action minigames, mostly trivial
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Lisa: The Painful
No adaptive opposition
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
Suspects are written characters, not adapting minds
Variance3 vs 3
Same score on variance - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Lisa: The Painful
Russian roulette and permanent random losses
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
Case clues are hidden until investigated
Optimization7 vs 7
Same score on optimization - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Lisa: The Painful
Party builds and sacrifice decisions are strategic
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
Deduction-tree reasoning from gathered evidence is the game
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.