Building comparison
head to head
Portal 2vsSherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments
Neither is simply harder - they are hard in different places. Portal 2 demands more execution; Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments demands more variance.
Portal 2
Optimization · Pure Optimization
A first-person puzzle game where seeing the solution is the whole skill.
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments
Optimization · Pure Optimization
A detective adventure about gathering evidence and assembling deduction chains across six cases.
Portal 2 leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Portal 2Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments
Axis by axis
Execution3 vs 1
Portal 2 leans clearly harder on execution.
Portal 2
Portal placement requires some precision but timing is lenient.
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments
Minor minigames, no real dexterity ceiling
Reads0 vs 0
Same score on reads - which means the number cannot separate them. The difference is in what each one asks of you.
Portal 2
No opponent; puzzles are static.
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments
Suspects are scripted, nothing adapts to you
Variance0 vs 4
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments leans clearly harder on variance.
Portal 2
Puzzles are deterministic with no randomness.
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments
Clues are hidden but fixed until discovered
Optimization9 vs 7
Portal 2 leans clearly harder on optimization.
Portal 2
Solving the puzzle's logic IS the entire game.
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments
Deduction chains have correct solvable 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.