The Gateway Trilogy

I enjoyed it but the third game was just too short, and was mostly tile puzzle which maybe added to the robotic, gradual restart of the sleeper? Ended when it really became interesting. I wonder if it will have some sort of sequel. From what i understand the player character goes backwards in time, like he is walking in a mirrored dimension of his reality

Трилогия отличная, но в 3 части за столько лет ожидал нечто большего.

Let me be abundantly clear: Gateway and Gateway 2 are worth the $10 by themselves, to ME. I have an extremely strong nostalgia for them, so I personally feel they are worth the admission. Gateway 3 is a massive letdown. Gateway is a simple, minimalist, atmospheric point-and-click adventure game with a number of equally simple logic puzzles, alongside a handful of basic movement puzzles. These are by no means mind-breaking, but a handful can be a bit obtuse (in a charming sorta way). The atmosphere itself carries a lot of the game. There's just this looming, overarching feeling of "otherness" to everything. Like you belong here...but also don't at the same time. Narrative elements are sparse, but what is there is enough to raise an eyebrow and keep the intrigue going. The ultimate goal seemingly to escape the bizarre dimension you exist in. Gateway 2 is like the first game, but better in almost every conceivable way. The puzzles are more varied, the atmosphere is even more foreboding, and the narrative is downright chilling at points. The central plot following a traumatized girl who is haunted by her mother's watchful eye, that you end up enraptured by immediately following your escape from the previous game. Not high art, but for a 2000s flash-based point-and-click, it was extremely solid. Being old enough now to better understand the concepts present in the narrative made me appreciate it even more. Gateway 3 feels like a joke. Gone are the decent point-and-click puzzles. Instead we have a tedious series of tile-based puzzles. Now the previous two games did have tile puzzles, and they were a notable weak point, but they never really overstayed their welcome. Here...it's almost entirely tile puzzles. Additionally, all of the text dialogue is written in braille for some reason. Least until the ending. Which, speaking of. The little bit of story we get at the end feels like it takes a massive dump on everything that came before it. And it sucks that they seem to want to show it off the third game as a highlight.\ Overall, I recommend this collection on the first two games alone. Even if it's just out of curiosity. Just don't waste time on the third game. I read some other reviews discussing bugs and performance issues, they must have since been fixed, as the only issues I've had so far were the shoddy collision detection regarding the Clone towards the end of the third game, and some minor text misplacement in the second game. Outside of that all three games performed flawlessly.

[h1] RECOMMENDED [/h1] This is straight from my childhood, I loved playing this on flash games. A fun way to spend your time as long as you go in expecting an Adobe Flash level of game. Not the worlds best game but a fun way to spend a few hours Best Tags to Describe: Puzzle - Platformer - Nostalgia Concept • Aesthetics • Audio • Visual • Controls •• 4/10 ••••••• 3/10 ••••••• 6/10 ••• 5/10 •••• 8/10 Story • World • Content • Difficulty • Ease-of-Achievements 6/10 ••• 5/10 •••• 5/10 •••••• 7/10 ••••••••••••••••• 6/10 Worth-the-Price? Yes ☐ No ☑ (Get it on sale) Would I play again? Yes ☑ No ☐

I LOVED these games when they were on Miniclip years back. I was so happy that they released them on Steam since the browser versions don't function anymore! This collection also includes a new third game, that doesn't quite have the same suspenseful feeling as the first two games and is maybe a bit too long (although when I first played the original two I was still a kid and had no prior experience with horror games, so they scared the s out of me). Even though I've played many horror games or games with horror elements since Gatway I and II, I still found the story of Gateway II surprisingly creepy and affecting, its Lynchian presentation is definitely unique even today. I can't really comment on the difficulty/fairness of the puzzles since I remembered all the solutions from my childhood, but the story related puzzles still brought a smile to my face. If you're looking for a short game that is more creepy and surreal than shockingly horrifying and gory, I'd recommend trying the first two games. If you have played these games before, you know exactly what you're buying.

Loved it

I played this fantastic game many years ago as the original flash game in web browsers like others here..... I remembered this game very well cause it had a special and extravagant style which i liked very much!! So i was happy to find it on steam. I bought it - installed it - runned it and after playing I & II i have to say: WASTED..... its so sad & bad!!!!! This game was a real master pice back to the days. The feeling was perfect. But now? They destroyed the game by replacing the perfect matched background musics and soundeffects with new ones which feels absolute wrong and missplaced! The game runs faster or better said: the boxman moved much faster... bad! And sometimes the game has performance leaks and FPS drops on my machine lol... To the end: how to fail an already winned game? - watch this and cry =(

the gateaway trilogy is a blast from the past. the two first games remain mainly good, while the new third one suffers from repetetive puzzles overall the majority is good but don't come too excited for the new stuff.

I got this game because I played it on an old flash game website. Gateway one and two were fine, I recommend reducing graphics to keep it from lagging though. As for the 3rd game, just use a walkthrough. (I ended up not finishing 3 because it crashed and lagged too much)

It's worth it if you get it on sale, and were a fan of the original flash games. Otherwise this game has a slim market. I still had a couple hours' worth of fun though.