Gateways
Worth it · Short indie · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 5.9h 6.9h to 100%
- Value
- $0.85/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 251 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 1 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 655 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 128MB video RAM and at least Shader Model 3.0, 41 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
21 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 22 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 94 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Swapper ($2.24, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Iconoclasts ($19.99, scores 59).
More about Gateways
Critics scored it 72. Players sit 17 points higher at 89 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 11 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The drop-off
80% start to 11% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Cite this score
Gateways scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/216290/gatewaysReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.