Bigger enemies turn up - not many, because it's not really a combat game - and they all suffer the same vacuumed fate in the end. As for the rooted spitters, you can suck in their heads and then pull them out of the ground. The vacuum also has uses once the gunk starts turning up with enemies: you can suck them in and then spit out the horrible bouncing toothed basketballs that appear early on. It spirits it down! It is a delight to rove around the world, a stocky little human covered in hand-made gadgets, and just chug through the gunk whenever you find it. Your standard tool in The Gunk is a vacuum cleaner thing with apparently limitless storage. Just to see it is to know how bad it is, and to know what you want to do with it. At times, it moves through the air like the murmuration of some hideously infested starlings. It clogs the game's beautifully chunky levels. Ribena from Hades! It bubbles and throbs and gets everywhere. The gunk is black and grey and brown and deep, bloody red. Watch on YouTube The Gunk gameplay trailer As the game begins they land on a beautiful planet filled with weird, colourful wildlife and the promise of riches. I think that's the idea anyway: these two jet around the galaxy trying to find anything they can turn into energy and sell. The game casts you as one of a duo of space haulers. The Gunk is a treat.Īnd the gunk is a treat. Once you're through with the fun, interesting, clever stuff, the game is over. Everything here is fun, and everything is interesting and clever. This is the latest release from the team that made the glorious SteamWorld adventures, and despite the shift to 3D, it shares qualities with those games - a certain brightness, a love of layering on the detailing, and a pleasingly compact nature.
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Availability: Out today on PC and Xbox (Game Pass).Developer: Image & Form, Thunderful Games.Crucially, though, The Gunk is also a game about tidying up, and so that moral and ethical sweetness is knotted to something else that borders on a compulsion. Rewild an alien world in this elegant and thoughtful game.Īt the very centre of The Gunk is a neat ecological fable, so it has a sort of moral and ethical sweetness to it from the off.
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