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Frederik Pohl's Gateway

DOS - 1992

One of the best sci-fi games I've ever played, this game follows Pohl's classic: you play a "prospector" - one of the brave souls who volunteer to pilot alien crafts to unknown destinations, hoping to find valuable artifacts. As with other early Legend releases, the interface is excellent. I can't find fault with this game except that it seems a bit short. The plot is first-rate and puzzles challenging throughout. (the "Virtual Reality"-based puzzles are some of best puzzles ever designed for an adventure game, bar none).

And best of all, Legend released the game as freeware a few years ago to promote Gateway 2: Homeworld. Two thumbs up!

Review By HOTUD

Comments and reviews

Thoughts 17 Aug. 2025

Is there a way to take off the mouse inversion. Would be cool

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Gooki 16 Nov. 2023

I remember that fugly interface from childhood, still loved the games to death. Its a mystery rpg played in a mud style fashion, it reads like a living novel, where you are the character within that world. RIP Pohl amazing work!

1
SteveT 21 Feb. 2023

You can use Dosbox to run it in Windows. When installed it will create a shortcut on your desktop. Just download the game, extract and then open. You can simply drag the exe or bat file onto the icon and it will run, You may need to run setup first. There is also D-Fend reloaded which is a bit trickier to setup but offers a graphical interface to run you dos games. https://dfendreloaded.sourceforge.net

2
Rod Cloutier 01 Nov. 2022

Be really nice to own this as a windows 64 bit application.

What would it take to upgrade this to a windows playable game ?

0
ASD 28 Jan. 2022

I give stars 4.3/5.

0
Ensomni 08 Dec. 2021

I remember this game as a kid still. Never finished it but hunted me all these years. Thanks for find. Be nice if they adapted this for mobile too.

1
Switchbox 21 Jul. 2021

Great review. I'm reading the trilogy now. It's incredible. Great deep thick atmosphere within the gateway asteroid, superb, witty, almost funny-satirical language, yet still serious and believable. Because it's a first-person point of view book and the protagonist is humourous, but NOT a comedian. Absolutly recommended. Will download and replay the games. Legend Entertainment have always delivered.

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_r0gu3__ 16 Apr. 2017

Best game ever!

3
The gateway theory 11 Jun. 2015

An excellent adventure game, I still remember several of the puzzles and the major plot points even years later, and as the description says, the virtual reality puzzles were at best hilarious. Music was for the most part good too, fitting the milieu of the locales.

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Downloads

DOS version
Game file
United Kingdom English
5 MB

Extras

Manual Manual 1
Extra file
DOS 10 MB English English
Misc Misc 1
Hintbook
DOS 12 MB English English

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