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The Incident at Galley House
In 1936, something terrible happened at Galley House. Decades later, with a strange contraption that reveals echoes of the past, you must uncover the truth behind this grisly mystery. A new puzzle from the creators of The Roottrees are Dead.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“I enjoyed most of my time with the game, but the reviews being rated as highly helpful built expectations that were not met by the game itself. The Incident at Galley House is a fun story to sit through, but the deduction is a lot less in your hands than something like Obra…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“I cannot recommend this game enough. If you cannot manage to play it in one sitting it is all that your brain wants to do until you finish the game! Great mystery, amazing VA's, great UI. I cannot wait for more games from this team!”
— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs played“Do you want to be deeply unsettled while playing a logic game with excellent voice acting, lovely set pieces, and funky neat seance technology? Then this is the game for you! I figured out what was going on in the story pretty early, since this sort of thing is hard to do for an…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Untitled
The Incident at Galley House has been nominated for a Golden Joystick Award for Best Indie Game - Self Published . If you liked the game, please consider voting for us here: https://www.gamesradar.com
Important Patch
- There was a regression in the previous update that prevented you from viewing the ending of the game. It's fixed, super sorry about that!
Update Notes for July 28, 2026
- Fixes to OpenGL Renderer to make the game render better - AMD RX 5700 XT cards now default to OpenGL Renderer for stability - Added some hints and text changes for late game puzzles - Added a new so
Building Galley House
It's been two weeks since we launched The Incident at Galley House and the reception has been incredible. We'd love to thank everyone who supported us, either by giving us a review, sharing the game w
Update Notes for July 20, 2026
- Fixes a bug where an important hint could come out of order - Fixed a bug where navigation by keyboard could break if you were focused on a text field - Fixed a bug where dragging via mouse could be
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Adventure |
| Player tags | Mystery · Puzzle · Detective · Story Rich · Visual Novel · Adventure · Logic · Atmospheric · Nonlinear · Horror · Casual · 2D (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Adjustable Text Size · Color Alternatives · Custom Volume Controls · #category_playable_at_your_own_pace · Playable without Timed Input |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 15 |
| Official site | https://galley.house |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 64-Bit Processor: 2.0Ghz Dual Core Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 510 Storage: 3 GB available space