The Gunk Reviews
The Gunk is one of the games that offers visual prowess with little fun in playing it, it failed to employ gameplay elements that serves the properly built world, leaving a huge gap between the level of the graphic and the level of everything else. This game is one of those games that you can play for sure and you will also get excited and enjoy it some time, but it certainly is not the game that was marketed and we were waiting for at least.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
The Gunk is beautiful and ambitious, but unfortunately fails to live up to its potential. It's nice to clean up the gunk, solve basic puzzles, and explore visually interesting scenarios, but many of the mechanics are underutilized and ideas don't evolve beyond their initial state. At least the relaxing atmosphere, stunning backdrops and great voice acting make the experience immersive to some extent. In the end, The Gunk is reasonable, however it fails to stand out.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
The remaining feeling is that it offers a beautiful story, which keen you for an afternoon or (even better) in smaller doses. Nothing more, nothing less.
Review in Greek | Read full review
In the end, The Gunk sits in the middle of the pile. The core of sucking up the Gunk is satisfying for the roughly four hours of playtime, but the lack of a difficulty curve for the puzzles or combat lets it down. Its story makes an honest attempt at character drama that works for the most part, but the short playtime doesn't leave us quite enough time with the characters or world. It's by no means bad and there's not much poorly implemented content here, but it's a plainly inoffensive experience that settles when it could have punched slightly higher.
Meditative gameplay and some fine visuals are not enough to bring some significance to The Gunk.
Review in Russian | Read full review
Image & Form's first 3D title doesn't have any obscene messes to clean, but it never excels beyond a conventional distraction.
The Gunk is not a disastrous game. I enjoyed turning my brain off for five hours and exploring this strange and mysterious planet. It’s okay for games to just be empty calories sometimes, and I wouldn’t knock The Gunk for just being a generic popcorn flick. The Gunk aspires to be more than that though, and it falls considerably short. The quality of the SteamWorld games gavethe expectation that this would be a fresh take on the third-person adventure genre, but The Gunk is too shallow for me to recommend - even in the slow December months. If you’re looking for character-driven action-adventure games on Game Pass, Lake and Firewatch were both added earlier this week. Give those a look and leave The Gunk in the gutter.
The Gunk has its flaws, but it's still a mostly enjoyable way to spend a few hours. It's a short but sweet adventure with gameplay reminiscent of PS2-era platforming games and so fans of the genre should certainly give it a look through Xbox Game Pass.
The Gunk has a fantastic setting and lovely characters, but ultimately the gameplay is lacking.
There is nothing fundamentally wrong with The Gunk. It works from a technical standpoint and it isn’t the worst way you can spend about five hours of your time. But I just can’t muster up any sort of authentic excitement about it. If it were funnier or cleverer or more challenging, I could maybe start to see it as a title I could recommend. But as it is, the best I can do is pay it that slightly backhanded compliment of saying it’s perfect for Game Pass.
Cleaning up the titular Gunk is satisfying, but the rest of the game surrounding it is routine and overly familiar.
Too familiar, too easy, and too short but if you're looking for an undemanding time waster on Game Pass you can certainly do worse than The Gunk.
Rani and Becks are an appealing duo to share adventures with, but they deserve something more exciting than The Gunk has to offer.
The Gunk game can be considered a short adventure. Nothing more and nothing less. Don't expect anything special to happen during the game. However, the experience of this short title may bring some people some enjoyable moments.
Review in Persian | Read full review
The Gunk is a rather visually stunning experience with many drawbacks that prevent it from scoring higher. While it has some noteworthy high points, it also has some devastatingly low points that show that Image & Form Games are just dipping their toes into 3D world design.
The Gunk sports an interesting core mechanic and two likable heroines, but lacks the depth and complexity needed to make the game stand out.
Meaning his God complex is very real, and very much in play throughout your journey.
The Gunk is a short adventure but will please players who want to take a break between two AAAs. Without revolutionizing the genre and despite its lack of depth, the game brings a little breath of fresh air and gives us the opportunity to leave our planet to heal another.
Review in French | Read full review
The Gunk provides a fun mystery in what’s a very easy going and guided journey, it’s rather short but at the same time a fine experience.