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The Gunk is a really lovely game, both in its vibrant alien terrain and the absolutely fantastic soundtrack that makes wandering those areas a beautifully meditative exercise at times. You’ll be holding down the right trigger a lot as you suck up every blob in sight, and cleaning an area entirely will cause it to miraculously spring back to life in a way that’s always satisfying. The vast majority of this adventure is spent either progressing down linear paths or hopping around small puzzle areas, and in either case you’re usually getting rid of all the gunk you see or trying to reach a switch in order to open up the next route. It’s a pretty cool tale, if a somewhat straightforward one, and has some fairly poignant messages about the state of our own planet as well. Armed with a robotic vacuum hand, its roughly four-hour campaign has you exploring the planet and sucking up the gunk as the pair pieces together the cause behind it. What they find instead is a planet where pockets of green energy and the life around them are being stifled by blobs of seemingly malicious black ooze. As the first 3D game from Image & Form Games (best known for its excellent SteamWorld series), The Gunk’s fairly brief journey doesn’t do a whole lot to expand on its shallow but consistently amusing concept, but it’s still a lot of fun to clear away the goop blanketing its world and uncover the grounded sci-fi story told there.Īn action-adventure game at its heart, The Gunk puts you in control of the bold and optimistic space explorer Rani, accompanied by her more cautious and serious partner Becks, as they land on an unknown alien world in search of resources to scavenge.

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That makes The Gunk particularly appealing to me, as its linear campaign is packed full of opportunities to methodically transform a muck-covered alien planet back into a pristine and beautiful landscape. Contrary to what the state of my real-world home might imply, I find something oh-so-satisfying about cleaning up in video games.

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