Nintendo Life has reviewed Gecko Gods on Switch 2, a stripped-back, Zelda-inspired 3D adventure in which players control a wild gecko rather than a traditional hero. The reviewer found the game an uneven but clearly heartfelt effort, praising the evident dedication behind it while criticising confusing quest design that led to significant early frustration and unnecessary backtracking.

Developed by Inresin, led by Louis Waloschek, the seven-hour game took five years to make and strips away typical adventure-game trappings, offering minimal combat, few characters beyond some talking birds, and a thin prophecy-driven plot. The reviewer struggled for roughly the first four hours due to poorly communicated objectives, such as a misleadingly ordered quest list and a broken-feeling island counter, though they noted the game improved once its intended relaxed, exploratory pace became clearer.