The Gallery (2025)

AI Slop but this game sucks in every conceivable way. I knew I was going to negatively review this game, because obviously having an art gallery game full of AI art is a stupid idea, and I have no idea how this ended up being put out. I only played it so that I could give it a negative review, but I thought "Y'know what? Let me try it out actually, the game could be good mechanically" No, this sucks. The wall textures are straining to my eyes, you put this weird shifting filter on the artwork so it's ALWAYS moving, the puzzles are easy and stupid, the music is grating, and there's nothing impressive about it. I'm wondering if this was made as a project or to get money but I hope it either fails or nets you in 0 dollars. Stop polluting Steam, make a real game.

Achievements behind the paywall on a f2p game = instant downvote.

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The Gallery is a surprisingly relaxing puzzle game that I enjoyed because it makes observation the most important skill. I explore a mysterious art museum where the paintings themselves contain clues, and instead of rushing me through the experience, the game gives me time to look closely at everything. I liked that slower approach because it makes solving a puzzle feel like actually investigating a strange exhibition. The main puzzles revolve around studying paintings, spotting patterns and interacting with artwork to uncover hidden information. I have to rotate paintings, rearrange things and connect clues before I can unlock the next room. I enjoyed the way the puzzles encourage me to stop and look carefully rather than immediately trying random combinations. The exploration is straightforward, but the museum itself helps keep me interested. There are different rooms to investigate and plenty of small details that can turn out to be relevant. I liked finding collectibles as I progressed because they give me another reason to examine the environment instead of simply solving the main puzzle and moving on. The atmosphere is probably my favorite part. The museum feels slightly e…

I love art so I really enjoy seeing all the different art portraits and I have discovered with this game that I like solving riddles.

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.