Gateways
Smudged Cat Games Ltd · 2012 · Indie, Puzzle, Platformer, Metroidvania, Sci-fi
PC
Very Positive90% · 187
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About Gateways
From the creative mind behind The Adventures of Shuggy comes an exciting new retro-styled 2D platformer, a winner of Dream Build Play 2012 and a top 50 game of 2012 according to Game Informer.
Grab the gateway guns and explore a huge lab filled with mysterious puzzles in this classic platforming adventure. Use gateway technology to leap from one place to another, change size to explore small passages or defeat large enemies, walk on walls and ceilings to reach new areas and even travel in time to work together with past echoes of yourself.
Move seamlessly between different areas of the vast labyrinthian map with no waiting for loading screens as you explore and discover new power ups. Use each of your new abilities to progress further, unlock shortcuts and find even more power ups. Can you escape?
Grab the gateway guns and explore a huge lab filled with mysterious puzzles in this classic platforming adventure. Use gateway technology to leap from one place to another, change size to explore small passages or defeat large enemies, walk on walls and ceilings to reach new areas and even travel in time to work together with past echoes of yourself.
Move seamlessly between different areas of the vast labyrinthian map with no waiting for loading screens as you explore and discover new power ups. Use each of your new abilities to progress further, unlock shortcuts and find even more power ups. Can you escape?
Key Features
- Travel across a room instantly using gateways.
- Change size using the resizing gateway gun.
- Interact with your past echoes using the time travel gateway gun.
- Walk on walls and ceilings using the rotation gateway gun.
- Sprawling open-world design.
- Use Gateway's sophisticated help system to discover if you can solve a puzzle and even watch the solution played out in front of you.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
An excellent puzzle platformer, much more than just a Portal clone.1 found this helpful
Gateways offers Portal style gaming mechanics within a 2D map. The puzzles are well done and there's a bit of metroidvania backtracking required after acquiring certain power ups. The game was enjoyable right up to the end.1 found this helpful
Its peak
Too complicated, not for me!
great puzzles. some took me a long time to figure out. love the challenge and creativity.
Gateways is an interesting little game. The comparisons to Portal are bound to occur, so let’s just come right out and say what everyone is thinking: “This is a low-budget, 2D portal clone”. It’s almost true. You can only make portals on certain walls, you can only have two portals at any given time, and at no point do you get any actual weapons to fight the few but deadly hostile lab things. That’s pretty much where the comparisons end though. I’m going to roll out this review in a bit of an unconventional way, addressing the general gameplay first and then each progressive gateway gun which expands the gameplay as you progress through the story. The overall presentation is a pixelated cartoony affair, almost pretending to be a Super Nintendo game but with substantially better lighting effects. With a Metriod-style map that is uncovered as you go and tracks which puzzles you can or cannot do at any given point (provided you spent 5 orbs for a ‘puzzle hint’ while there), exploration is encouraged particularly as you discover upgrades to your health and gateway gun abilities over the course of the game. The game unfolds with the doctor waking up in his lab, with no memory of why…
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