The Gallery - Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone
Skip · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$14.99Skip
On its price record
$9.54Fair
- Length
- 3.1h 7.4h to 100%
- Value
- $4.84/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 408 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.54 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 3 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
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About the game
Embark on the sci-fi epic that started it all at the dawn of modern VR, setting standards for roomscale movement and interaction for years to come. Winner of over 30 awards including "VR Game of the Year", The Gallery is VR's premier adventure series.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Geforce GTX 970 OR AMD Radeon R9290. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 35 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 30 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed ($14.99, scores 46) beats it on value, while it beats Layers of Fear 2 (2019) ($1.99, scores 32).
More about The Gallery - Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone
3.1 hours to finish it, 7 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
63% start to <1% 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
What players say
5/10 loved episode 1, played it back in 2016, bought episode 2, played in 2021, /w meta 2 but was buggy couldn't finish. finished now in 2023. really tried to like it but I can't. pros, graphics still hold up nice. (played with quest 3) cons, short play time 3.5 hrs, blind play. puzzles are not good or satisfying, bugs, can't picking up flash light, red crystal from bag, (game restart or selecting other stuff, fixes...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Minor improvement from the first, but once again has only 1 puzzle. Some of the side activities are mildly more interesting, though there's still a major barrier of the VR interractions. The two side activities are the board game perfection about making shapes go on posts in time and threading a needle. There's some decent work at trying to use environmental/lore objects as hints towards what to do, but the story...
Once upon a time the gold age of VR gaming. It was in 2017-2020, a lot of good VR games with good graphics and interactivity were being developed and released for PC or PSVR quite frequently. The Gallery is one of them. Then came the Middle Age of Facebook/Meta and everything got worse and worse and worse. It was a regressive age, VR made several steps back. King Zuck and Prince John tried to convince consumers that...
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Cite this score
The Gallery - Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/526140/the-gallery-episode-2-heart-of-the-emberstoneReviews 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.