The Incident at Galley House

good investigation

I really liked this game, the logic of figuring out new locations, character movements and the timeline was great fun.

For fans of the Obra Dinn, or the Roottrees; The Incident at Galley House is a must buy. It's a great mystery with a very neat story which comes together very satisfyingly. It hits the right amount of spooky yet grounded to keep you feeling just a little on edge as you piece together what really happened on that fateful night. Aside from the story (and it's a good one), TIAGH crams in full voice acting and a solid tool set to back up your explorations. I really appreciated the notepad and how easy it was to swap portraits and names as my deductions continued. There are enough leads between location, time codes, and people that brute forcing your way through might get you some leads but deductions will make you feel like you've really solved something if you piece something together from who was present vs. not present. I do feel like I have a minor gripe with one of the final victims that you're solving for in that I was asked to log victims in a particular fashion but it turns out the game subverted that expectation. I suspect they did this to prevent someone from accidentally tagging them earlier than they were meant to, but it was a bit of an annoyance to bumble around until I finally had to just use the built-in hint system. A minor gripe, but I'd been really trying to solve the game without the use of hints and finding out why I wasn't getting this last piece of data logged over subverted semantics was a little annoying :P But with that said; it's genuinely a super solid game. I really enjoyed the full story that they had here and I would love to see other stories set in the same universe with the same tools.