Gateways

IndiePlatformPuzzle
Gateways
IDs
IDSteam
13662216290
72
Critic rating
7.9
User rating
Summary

Gateways is a 2D platform game set in the lab of an inventor called Ed following an outbreak of a number of his more "creative" experiments. Can you help him escape the lab? Alongside the traditional platform elements such as jumping on enemies heads, spikes and moving platforms are the gateway guns. The gateway guns allow you to place two gateways on the walls, floors and ceilings of the lab so that when you pass through one you emerge out of the other. As progress is made through the game different types of gateway gun are introduced with different effects. After the basic gun, you acquire a gun that creates two gateways of different sizes, passing through one way shrinks Ed to half his size and the other way makes Ed grow to twice his size. Then you find a gun where one gateway doesn't just connect to the others location but also its time, allowing Ed to travel back in time and encounter earlier versions of himself. Finally, the last gun manipulates gravity so passing through allows Ed to walk along walls and on ceilings. Gateways takes place on a single sprawling map rammed with puzzles and challenges. As power ups are acquired more and more of the map opens up containing more power ups and secrets. In addition to the gateway guns Ed will also find a torch letting him light up the darker areas of the map and a mirror which can be used to deflect lasers.

Developers
Smudged Cat Games
Publishers
Smudged Cat Games
Genres
IndiePlatformPuzzle
Platforms
LinuxMacPC (Microsoft Windows)Xbox 360
Game modes
Single player
Perspectives
Side view
Keywords
achievementsbreaking the fourth wallcollectiblesdarknessdeliberately retrodigital distributiongame referencemale protagonistmetroidvaniamoving platformspop culture referencepuzzle games with storiespuzzle platformersave pointscientistsingle-player onlysteamsteam achievementssteam workshoptentaclesxbox controller support for pc

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