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Posted on: February 5, 2025
josehm
Verified ownerGames: 5 Reviews: 1
Fun clunky mechanics
The Gunk is an indie platformer that offers fun luigi mansions-esque mechanics in a foreign alien world. While the voicelines are a bit cringey and the premise of the game a bit undeveloped, the gameplay is intuitive and classic. Reminds me of ty the tasmanian tiger or jak and daxter vibes. Solid playthrough
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Posted on: September 22, 2024
Vainamoinen
Verified ownerGames: 240 Reviews: 29
I've been waiting for this!
At launch discount, this game really was a steal. The Gunk skillfully mixes Beyond Good & Evil and Prince of Persia 2008 with a bit of Crime Scene Cleaner. There are some traps, precious few enemies, and there's even boss fights of sorts, but you'll mostly be spending your time leasurely scouting out the area (there's no map, so you might get a little lost), admiring lush vegetation, scanning new discoveries, cleaning up gunk, collecting resources, figuring out how to proceed. Combat remains a side note, and that's just great. The conversation between the two main protagonists, mostly via radio, often feels intimate, I almost felt like I was intruding. It's a little overacted sometimes and the conflict may feel a bit forced towards the climax, but the themes are still very relevant and the empathy is something that I wish more games had these days. The developers are never breaking the fourth wall, they're never pouring out irony, they're never trying too hard to be funny. They're preserving the integrity of their dystopian vision first and foremost. That's immersion done right. The limited scope of the game is really refreshing, it feels like it was planned as a AA experience from start to finish. It never gets pretentious and tries to tell you it's more than it actually is, it never sandboxes itself into oblivion. "The Gunk" has a limited open world, a tight and consistent game design, three relevant characters, and content for about 12 hours of smooth and satisfying platformer gameplay. It ends before it becomes boring, which I really can't say about most gaming experiences these days (not even Thunderful's).
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Posted on: November 15, 2024
chrisp
Verified ownerGames: 196 Reviews: 4
Mellow fun puzzle game
Mellow fun puzzle game. Just that. Nice banter between the characters.
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Posted on: October 26, 2024
3DMan
Verified ownerGames: 437 Reviews: 22
A nice light action adventure!
This was a delightful game, with excellent graphics, decent platforming, and good mechanics. Story is okay, pretty similar to most "land on strange planet and end up saving it" games. Envionments are vibrant, reminded me of Journey to the Savage Planet, and actually a bit of Horizon Zero Dawn when you go further in. Music was suprisingly great, unusual to hear cello. Only slight negative would be the cartoony looking human characters, but I suppose that's a stylistic choice. Clearing gunk was actually pretty cathartic, makes me wish there was a sandbox mode where you just go around hosing up gunk like a spacey Power Wash Simulator.
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Posted on: November 6, 2024
hekso80
Verified ownerGames: 49 Reviews: 1
TOO SHORT
TOO SHORT
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