When comparing Gateways vs Concrete Jungle, the Slant community recommends Concrete Jungle for most people. In the question“What are the best Puzzle games on Steam?” Concrete Jungle is ranked 29th while Gateways is ranked 32nd. The most important reason people chose Concrete Jungle is:
By playing the campaign mode users can easily get used to the game at a comfortable pace, with new elements getting introduced the further one makes it. This is a great way to learn the gameplay as it can get complex.
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Pros
Pro Just the right amount of content
The game is long enough that the player gets to master each of the unique mechanics, but not so long that you get bored of any of them.
Pro Portal x 4
Gateways has the same formula as the great Portal, except that it's in 2D, BUT, they introduce 3 new types of portal guns, a gun that makes you smaller/bigger, a gun that shifts gravity 90 or 180 degrees, and the best one, a time travelling gun. The last part of the game lets you used all the 4 guns together for mind bending puzzles.
Pro Campaign mode that eases the player into the gameplay
By playing the campaign mode users can easily get used to the game at a comfortable pace, with new elements getting introduced the further one makes it. This is a great way to learn the gameplay as it can get complex.
Pro Deep gameplay
How the puzzle aspect is implemented allows for a lot of depth to the strategy gameplay
Pro Great mix of strategy and puzzle
Concrete Jungle mixes city building strategy with aspects of line clearing puzzlers such as Tetris in a very original way.
Cons
Con Lacks clean or clever puzzles
Unlike Portal, a game with high polish that shows in its puzzle designs Gateways has a clear lack of polish to its puzzles which makes for a subpar experience as it the games design can lead to problems interpreting the puzzles appropriately.
Con Games can last a long time and difficulty is unknown until level is started
Not knowing how long a game will last can be frustrating for those just looking for a quick sessions. On top of this the terrain will not be known until a round is started, which means it could potentially be stacked against the player, which makes for unknown difficulty before a round is started.