Headset & Audio — The Incident at Galley House

Launch reviews from Siliconera, Game Informer, and GameSpew recommend playing The Incident at Galley House with a headset. Paul Alexander's original score uses spatial audio to place voices and ambient cues in the 3D memory scenes — rain on the roof in QU, billiard room echoes in BI, and chapel ambience in CH all benefit from stereo or surround headphones.

The game ships with separate volume sliders for voice, SFX, and ambient in Settings → Audio. Subtitle speaker names help when off-screen characters speak; enable them on first playthrough even with a headset.

The July 18 patch fixed a bug where voices could sound like beeps when using a headset on PC and Steam Deck. Spatial audio routing now works correctly after updating via Steam.

If you still hear distorted VO after patching:

• Restart the game fully — suspend/resume on Deck can cache old audio state
• Verify Windows default output device matches your headset
• Disable conflicting virtual surround software (some conflict with the game's built-in spatial mix)
• Check Settings → Audio — voice slider at zero mutes dialogue entirely

Full patch timeline: updates & patch notes.

The same July 18 patch improved diacritic support when typing character names in the notebook — important for French, German, and Japanese locale players entering accented names. Character names in the game script remain English, but notebook free-text notes accept extended characters after the patch.

Japanese players: the July 15 patch also updated the notebook key binding for the JP locale. See keyboard & mouse for default bindings.