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(based on 5 ratings)Estimated play time: 18 hours (based on 2 votes)
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About the Story
A puzzle-mystery game inspired by Return of the Obra Dinn, Her Story, Unheard and The Roottrees are Dead.
Investigate the files on an old computer that once belonged to a mysterious outside agent.
The files detail the gruesome story of Galley House, a case that was said to be unsolvable.
What really happened at Galley House? And what did the agent find out that lead to their death?
Delve through deeper and deeper layers of mystery as you piece together the grand puzzle.
And remember... There are no ghosts in Galley House!
Ratings and Reviews
| Average Rating: based on 5 ratingsNumber of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 1 |
Clever puzzles with a great atmosphere!, March 2, 2025What a compelling game! It really hit that sweet spot of slowly creeping sense of dread interspersed with triumphant aha! moments. There were a few scenes that gave me genuine chills, and a couple puzzles that were really brilliant (and made me feel brilliant too). The core mechanic was a neat logic puzzle that was fun and engaging the whole way through. I'll be thinking about this one for a while!
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Zarf Updates
Type Help: design ruminations
I twooted about Type Help (William Rous), a new deduction-type game which is so full of awesome surprises that it's hard to review!
But, after mulling for a couple of days, I've come up with stuff to say after all. Lucky you!
You are handed an old laptop full of files concerning an old (1936) investigation. A houseful of people were found dead. What happened? You have audio recordings (or rather text transcripts of audio recordings) from the residents' last day. But most of the files are unlisted; you have to figure out the filenames to unlock them.
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-- Andrew Plotkin, 28-Feb-2025
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Fogknife
I spent Friday afternoon and evening playing Type Help by William Rous. It's very good, perhaps great. It's the first game that I've played in eight years that gripped me in the same sort of way that Universal Paperclips did, and it seems likely that this game will join that one in my personal all-timer list.
-- Jason McIntosh, March 10, 2025
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Current Version: Unknown
Development System: Twine
IFID: 7EE762FB-7C3D-4304-9ADE-E7D4CFD60402
TUID: rtdcp8xzxnzi9c2t
Inspired by The Roottrees are Dead, by Jeremy Johnston
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