The Incident at Galley House
Worth it · Narrative · 2026
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $8.50.
- Length
- 8.1h
- Value
- $2.47/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Last discount ended
- 35 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 510, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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 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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $17.99, set in July 2026. It has gone on sale 2 times in the 80 days tracked here, most recently in August 2026. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 5 weeks ago. No sale on record has reached $8.50, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games closest to it, Dropsy ($9.99, scores 69) and Blossom: The Seed of Life ($16.99, scores 69) both come in lower.
84 from critics against 94 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 550 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to October 2026. In its first 30 days on sale, none of 178 sampled reviews came from refunders.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 8.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
96% start to 32% 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
145 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 21:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
Cite this score
The Incident at Galley House scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3641000/the-incident-at-galley-houseReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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