This game inherits the gameplay and style which was seen in Erwin Kloibhofer and Henk Nieborg's previous title, Flink.

The enemies are brainwashed lemmings who have been turned into deadly monsters taking the form of zombies, cowboys, and aliens.

When defeated, enemies are turned back into ordinary lemmings, and true to type, they then jump off the nearest ledge.

[6] Reviewers for GameSpot and Electronic Gaming Monthly, however, felt that a new 2D platform jumper was a breath of fresh air since there had been no new entries in the genre for a while.

[4][5] EGM's Crispin Boyer said "it proves that PlayStation titles don't have to be 3-D to be good",[4] and GameSpot's Hugh Sterbakov concluded that "though The Adventures of Lomax is not state-of-the-art, it is a genuinely fun ride.