Finnish magazine Pelit gave 1 a 92, and 2 an 88:
https://www.pelit.fi/artikkelit/gateway/
https://www.pelit.fi/artikkelit/gateway-2-homeworld/
Gateway was rated as: ‘One of the best adventure games of 92. It will take up the remaining bits of your free time.’
Gateway 2 was criticized for having too many time-critical puzzles (like the start!), so you can’t just relax and figure things out, but have to save/die/load.
