The Incident at Galley House

Played this game over the course of a few days and man is it a treat. I'm not a stranger to the "detective genre" (I've played the other big names in the space like Golden Idol, Obra Dinn, Roottrees) but this is a welcome and wonderful addition. The voice acting alone makes this a must have, the description does not lie when they say it's fully, professionally voice acted. The overall mystery was enthralling once you start to piece together what's going on, and yet the story finds ways to twist your expectations in ways that never feel out of place. This is a wonderful, can-only-play once experience that I would reccommend to anyone who enjoys a good mystery.

DAMN that was some good brain-tingling mystery solving! Start out with a list of bodies in an old English manor, and work out their names, their movements, their interpersonal CONFLICTS, and the exact moment that they died while your brain percolates on the GREATER mystery... Gotta give a lot of praise to the cast of characters in this game: the writing and the vocal performances from the actors are perfect! Love me some buttoned-up English uppercrust folk gradually going a little mad and then a whole lot MORE mad and desperate as the INCIDENT overtakes their lives! Some really good "could be the presence of an unknowable eldritch horror, could be monoxide poisoning" stuff! In the end I finished this one in TWO sittings (admittedly very long, bodily-needs-ignored sittings) and was very proud to have only used the in-game hint system TWICE! One of those was entirely within my brainpower to solve (I just got impatient) but the other one made me "???" even after getting the solution. I'm not sure if the precise interface usage required to solve the puzzle is listed or hinted at anywhere? Judt felt very fiddly for no reason. I will also admit to brute-forcing a couple of characters' whereabouts when they were the only ones I hadn't figured out yet and just tried putting them in EVERY unused room, but that didn't happen to me nearly as often as it does in other games of this ilk! What a great time. Little sad it's over.

Extremely solid puzzle mystery game. The gameplay with the machine is very novel and does a great job at making you want to learn everything you can about what happened at the house and its inhabitants. I've played the original so it's hard to judge this one fresh, but I'd say it did a fantastic job of updating it to a more "fully-fledged" game, with the voice acting, soundtrack and artwork making many story sequences hit a lot harder. A part of me prefers the simple and dry text adventure of Type Help, but The Incident at Galley House is a wonderful experience on its own for newcomers and returning players alike.

[h1]《加利宅邸悬案》——意犹未尽，尚未圆满[/h1] 2025年年初，一家名为Evil Trout Inc.寂寂无名的开发者兼发行商发布了他们处子作《鲁特里一家死了》，该作在刚开始发布的时候并未产生多少波纹，影响相当有限。而随着他们在25年12月底发布官方中文以后，该作在中文互联网推理游戏爱好者的口中流传甚广，且为更多玩家所熟知。于是今年七月中旬，他们发布了他们的新作，也就是《加利宅邸悬案》。 其实准确来说，本作并不是他们全权创作的全新作品，和《鲁特里一家死了》类似，本作也是最初网页端的作品，基于 William Rous 于2025年发布的广受好评的免费网页文字游戏《Type Help》进行的全面重制与视听语言升级，简单来说，这是一次合作重制开发。 在通关本作后，笔者由于好奇去体验了一下原版的《Type Help》，原版《Type Help》是一款极简风格的命令行游戏。在该作品中，整个游戏界面仅由纯文本和输入框构成，玩家需要像程序员或早期计算机操作员一样，在后台界面敲入诸如“help”、“list”、“inbox”等基础指令来获取初始文件，随后进一步输入包含地点、时间戳和人物编号的复合代码来调取音频转录的文档记录。即便我是玩过一遍重制版的玩家，在玩原版的过程中也会因为系统过于简陋而导致游玩难度大大上升，玩家甚至需要借助外部工具（如Excel表格或实体笔记本）来构建复杂的关系网。 但如果你说Evil Trout Inc. 在重制过程中做了减法，那就大错特错了，它做了相当多的加法，无论是引用了一台3D实体机器作为核心交互界面，还是设计玩家需要通过扭动时间旋钮、拨动带有字母标识的地点拨片，以及拉下对应11个人物编号的沉重电闸来输入指令，这些无疑都比单纯的输入数字要复杂得多，但是这样的设计显然是更容易让玩家上手的。 当然，这样的演出冗余你有的时候也时常会在游戏过程中察觉，比如在原版《Type Help》中，修改一个参数只需敲击一次退格键并重新输入数字即可完成；而在《加利宅邸悬案》中，玩家必须重复“通过旋钮调整时间点—拨动地点拨片—关闭旧电闸—拉下新电闸—拉动主拉杆”的繁琐机械动作。如果输入错误，玩家还要被迫观看一段表示错误的机器动画。过度的物理动作模拟在信息大爆炸的阶段形成了严重的操作负担，这也就是一种典型的游戏制作抉择问题，为了追求视觉与触觉的拟真，牺牲了数字化界面具备的高效检索能力。 本作和前作《鲁特里一家死了》一样，具有档案绿色数字高亮显示，提示玩家该场景中还潜藏着未被发现的线索。如果玩家彻底卡关，游戏提供了一个无惩罚的提示系统（其实就是鲁特里的小黄鸭），该系统首先会给出一个模糊的方向性建议，若玩家继续请求，则会逐步明确线索，直至直接指出应去探查的具体时间、地点和人物，和前作一样，这是非常优秀的设计。 关于本作的推理部分，其实就推理乐趣而言，笔者个人觉得甚至比鲁特里一家更有趣一些，游戏伊始，玩家仅掌握极少量的确认场景。例如，最先解锁的场景是时间序列1，地点在“鹌鹑小路”，人物为1号和11号。玩家通过监听这唯一的一段对话，需要敏锐地捕捉上下文中的隐性线索。对话中，11号人物可能提及自己为宅邸主人工作了多年，而1号人物则是受邀前来但对主人并不熟悉。当对话结束时，1号人物表示要前往正门，而11号人物则表示自己要先行离开。而这里明显为玩家提供了两个线索：在下一个时间段（时间2），1号人物必定出现在入口，而11号人物必定出现在宅邸内的另一个区域。随后，玩家需要将这些推论输入机器进行验证。如果输入了正确的地点代码（如代表入口的RT）和对应的人物组合，机器将播放新的音频片段，展现该时空下发生的事情；如果错误，机器则会以杂音拒绝访问。而当本作的推理推进到中期，随着难度的加大，你就能完全的感受到这一套系统的魅力，且它所带来的正反馈是无可比拟的。 在剧情方面，本作其实存在着较大的争议。我相信对于大部分玩家来说在玩到游戏的前中期的时候会认为本作是正常世界的本格推理，但当剧情推进至中期，游戏的叙事性质就滑向了依靠超自然、伪科幻设定驱动的变格推理，故事也从推测人类作案动机与物理诡计变成了单纯的为了还原一切而还原一切。有些类似于叙事欺诈，对于笔者来说，自然也是不太喜欢有超自然力量参与的推理作品（我超有超自然能力你给我开头就说呀！虽然本作超自然能力作为核心诡计没法开头就说），只能说仁者见仁智者见智了。 当然如果抛开对本格类型的刻板期待，这一超自然设定自身构建了一套严丝合缝的内部逻辑体系，并在互动叙事层面实现了一套不错的诡计设计。 总的来说，《加利宅邸悬案》算得上是一部瑕不掩瑜的独立游戏佳作，一套及其有趣且独树一帜的游戏玩法和相当高的推理乐趣，除开剧情，它将会是笔者十分推荐的，好玩的，无比符合游戏这一媒介独特性的作品，无比期待Evil Trout Inc.的下一步游戏，笔者就一个小小的建议：如果你做下一作的话，可不可以来一个真正死人的本格推理让我爽一爽？

Well. And here I thought I had solved everything.

只能完前半部分，后面加入玄学以后，剧情就开始不清晰了。而且前面原本有的一些设定，在后面某一些时间线上就不适用了。 整体来说有点拉，而且【提示】也不明显，往往跳过了很多环节。

A good detective game. You have to pay attention to the speeches to figure out where characters where before and after a scene and also who they met or will meet up.

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