Life Gallery
Fair · Short indie · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.5h 1.7h to 100%
- Value
- $1.99/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 449 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.19 (60% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Life Gallery is a puzzle game with a unique, illustration-style art design that leads the players into a world of profound horror.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 6 or Radeon X1000, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
19 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is cheaper than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2 ($3.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Children of Silentown ($19.99, scores 52).
More about Life Gallery
1 of the 373 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 258 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 64 percent of everything written about it.
At 1.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
96% start to 71% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 2, 22:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I've never seen such lovely parents before. A beautiful family story. Or the opposite. Bizarre and interesting game.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Life Gallery is a psychological horror puzzle game developed and published by 751 Games that stands apart through its haunting artistic vision and emotionally layered storytelling. Instead of relying on fast-paced action or conventional horror tropes, it invites players into a disturbing world where every illustration conceals another piece of a tragic family history. The game revolves around twin brothers marked by...
Hands down, the art is creative and cool, so if you are buying it for the art, then you will definitely like it. As for the game as a game, the story is unclear and the puzzles are very basic. So easy to finish, which takes out the excitement.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Life Gallery scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1978330/life-galleryReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.