
The Gallery is a first-person puzzle game where every painting holds a secret. Explore a mysterious art museum, solve observation-based riddles, and unlock new rooms by deciphering clues hidden within the artwork. Will you uncover the truth behind the gallery?
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The Gallery, a mysterious first-person puzzle adventure where every painting hides a secret. Navigate two eerie galleries, each containing eight rooms filled with mind-bending puzzles, cryptic clues, and interactive artwork. To progress, you must decipher riddles, manipulate paintings, and uncover hidden patterns to unlock the next door.
With no time limits, an immersive ambient soundtrack, and a unique collectible system, The Gallery offers a relaxed yet thought-provoking experience. Observe, experiment, and solve—can you uncover the gallery’s ultimate mystery?
🖼️ Painting-Based Puzzles – Change, rearrange, and decode artwork to solve intricate riddles.
🔎 Interactive Environment – Pull levers, rotate paintings, and manipulate objects to unlock secrets.
🎵 Atmospheric Soundtrack – A haunting yet relaxing ambiance enhances the experience.
📜 Collectibles & Hidden Clues – Find and display artifacts that reveal more about the gallery.
🚶 Explore at Your Own Pace – No timers, just a deep dive into the world of art and mystery.
Wishlist now and prepare to unlock the secrets of The Gallery!
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Languages: English
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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.
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прикольная головоломка, поломал голову, за то прошел
This game is calm and soothing. It does also have quite good but admittedly easy puzzles. It does, however, rely heavily on AI. Now ethically you can go eitherway so I'll ignore that, the images do range in quality and inspiration but usually (not usually) don't stick out badly (though some of them are slop). Being AI also means some funky things can be done which would have been possibly more difficult using real artists as the costs would have gone through the roof to achieve what they have. I mean its free (ignoring addon) you couldn't do this without ai art. Take this game for what it is, soothing but imperfect. A bit weird yes but not jarringly so. Its a vibe.
My brain tickles
Прикольная, короткая игрушка, пройти можно
I start the game. But when it's loaded, i can't walk forward. So i can't play nothing.
Jeu original, énigmes variées et plaisantes si l'on aime observer de jolis tableaux dans le style muséum. Les indices sont en anglais mais compréhensibles si l'on possède un anglais basique.
Very fun, the puzzles are unique and thought-provoking. In fact, the answer to the final puzzle in room A took me 10 minutes because I didn't notice something so minute, and yet so crucial. So be on the lookout
Игра "The Gallery" – увлекательное приключение с элементами детектива, где каждое ваше решение имеет ощутимые последствия. Интерактивное кино, выполненное в стиле сплит-скрин, заставляет чувствовать себя участником событий, а не просто наблюдателем. История, разворачивающаяся вокруг похищенного художника и его шантажиста, держит в напряжении до самого финала. Хотя некоторые сценарные ходы могут показаться предсказуемыми, актерская игра и визуальная стилистика делают "The Gallery" запоминающимся опытом. Выбор между двумя временными линиями и разными персонажами добавляет реиграбельности, позволяя открыть новые детали и концовки. Игра отлично подходит для тех, кто любит интерактивные истории с моральными дилеммами и неоднозначными персонажами. Возможно, ей не хватает глубины в некоторых аспектах, но в целом это качественная и увлекательная игра, которая заслуживает внимания.
Spent 15 minutes playing before getting stuck because apparently you have to scan a QR code using your phone in order to continue past a specific level. Just screams "SCAM"
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