Building comparison
head to head
Mini MotorwaysvsPortal
Neither is simply harder - they are hard in different places. Mini Motorways demands more variance; Portal demands more execution.
Mini Motorways
Optimization · Pure Optimization
Road-network puzzle sister to Mini Metro; routing under pressure.
Portal
Optimization · Pure Optimization
The portal-gun puzzle game whose solutions are everything.
Mini Motorways leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Portal leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Mini MotorwaysPortal
Axis by axis
Execution2 vs 4
Portal leans clearly harder on execution.
Mini Motorways
real-time road drawing
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.
Mini Motorways
no opponent
Portal
No adversary modeling player.
Variance5 vs 0
Mini Motorways leans clearly harder on variance.
Mini Motorways
house and destination spawn
Portal
Deterministic chambers; no randomness.
Optimization9 vs 8
Mini Motorways leans a little harder on optimization, though the gap is small.
Mini Motorways
road network design
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.