[2] The player character is Ed, a scientist who must take back control of his laboratory from a band of robotic monkeys.

Gateways is a side-scrolling game in which the player controls Ed as he makes his way through his maze-like laboratory.

[3] Eurogamer scored the game 7/10, calling it a "stellar, well thought out puzzle gem on paper, and a tiny tragedy in practice."

[4] PC Gamer awarded it 79/100, but criticized the navigation of the world, focusing specifically on "annoying bottlenecks [that] force you to solve the same fiddly problem with every pass", and also wrote negatively of "[t]he platforming itself ... [which] doesn't feel deftly defined."

"[5] Edge gave the game 8/10, praising it as "an unusually warm and charming entry in an occasionally clinical genre, [which] escapes from the shadow of its obvious inspiration with no small amount of ingenuity.