It is the night shift and the masterpieces are falling apart. Grab your tape, patch the damage and keep the art looking, broadly, like art until closing time.
On a phone or tablet? Touch controls are built in. Turn your phone sideways and tap Open on its own for the best view.
You are the only guard on duty, and something is wrong with every room. Moths are eating the canvas, pigeons have found the skylight, and a “performance art collective” has bought tickets. Somewhere there is a goat.
Seven masterpieces, seven shifts, and each painting is bigger than the last. Walk over rolls of tape to grab them, stand on the damage and tape it up, and swat or scare away whatever is causing it. Keep the painting's condition up until closing time to earn your stars.
Pick up the odd extra along the way: mega tape, a triple espresso, bubble wrap to shield the painting, or a biscuit. Your best results are saved in your own browser.
| WASD / arrows | Move around the gallery. Walk over tape rolls to collect them. |
| Space | Tape. Stand on damage and hold it down to repair. Moths are swatted by bumping into them. |
| Shift | Whistle. Scares everything nearby, then needs about 7 seconds to recover. |
| P / Esc | Pause |
| M | Mute |
| Touch | Drag on the left side to move. Use the Tape and Whistle buttons on the right. |
Gallery Gaffer is a work of satire and entertainment, made by Tristan Hotham with AI assistance (Claude). The paintings shown are famous public-domain works redrawn as pixel art. All characters, visitors and events are invented, and the game is a personal project, not affiliated with or endorsed by any museum, gallery, Parliament or the UK Government. Views are my own. No data is collected; your progress is saved only in your own browser.