The Gallery

It's fine for what it is. There aren't any truly difficult puzzles, so it should only take 30 minutes or so to get through. It does use AI art, though, which is obviously a deal breaker for many. There's also a puzzle that many in the reviews have mentioned in which you need to [spoiler]scan a QR code[/spoiler]. Rest assured, it isn't anything malicious. Anyway, give it a try if you have a little bit of time you need to kill.

The game overall is fine, I really have no complaints. The puzzles are a bit uninspired but the actual bad part of the game is the use of AI art. Others have pointed out that there is also some dubious PC usage, usually linked to bitcoin miners and the like, but I'm not as well versed in that aspect so I'll talk about what I do know. Its painfully obvious where AI has been used, and in reality I think a better path forward would have been to use actual art with proper credits. Many works go into the public domain after a period of time, and finding them would not take much longer than generating them Making everything up using ChatGPT works fast, but having a game literally about a museum and then not using actual creations basically takes any and all possible soul out of the design. The puzzles of the game are a strange bag, some of them actually have you think about design and how the mix of paintings work together. Those puzzles are genuinely good. But for each of those good puzzles, there is a handful of simple and mindless puzzles. Click a button until it shows what the text says, read numbers off the paintings and put them into a keypad, count an object in the photos, read numbers in order, etc. There is no real inspiration to them. If there was even an ounce of actual interest put into these puzzles they could be miles better. Overall I would say that there is some promise to the puzzles, but most of them are quite bland. Developer, if this is your first game, you did a fine job. However there are clearly some points of bad design that should be painfully obvious even to you. I would love to revisit this later for future updates, but as it stands it feels like AI slop as others are pointing out. If you could make use of actual art, there would be a massive potential. If you continue to develop this game as you mentioned in the game, then maybe play around with branching out the puzzle style more, play around with more interesting uses of the setting and ideas that you have, but please for the love of god scrap the AI art.