Riven (1997)

Classic Myst wonderful graphics, a little more complex!

If you haven't played it yet, better to consider the purchase of the 2025 remasterized/extended version, I would think. But...Don't get me wrong: I used to replay joyfully this original version since 1997 until 2025, without getting tired of its already amazing graphics, at the time of its release. Might be the masterpiece of the Myst saga, with slightly harder (but still well-integrated) puzzles than in its siblings. Story, landscapes, sounds & music, exploration, riddles will make you forget to eat and sleep for a long while!

This is the original. The nostalgia alone is worth the buy. A classic puzzle game -- predecessor to escape rooms, really. The puzzles are fun, logical, and require thinking, paying attention, and connecting the dots. The story is fun, the art is beautiful, and the sound is immersive. I really love this game and I'm so happy it's available on Steam.

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Not sure that there's much replay value here but the experience is one of the best. They clearly put a lot of time and effort into this game, the environments, the lore, the puzzles. This is a tough one for sure... but the answers are all there, I never felt like the game was taking cheap shots at me in regard to the puzzles. You can kind of go anywhere and do whatever and it may feel overwhelming and directionless but that's kind of how the game is. Keep a notebook, draw maps, draw out how systems work, draw out the numbers as you're given them. Study the notes, look for patterns, look for themes that show up repeatedly. You need to take on the mindset that you're a historian or archeologist trying to find out about this place. You need to get down on your hands and knees and really look at the world closely. There are some downsides to games of this style. It's not always clear where you can go. Sometimes there was a part of a screen that I could visit but never really knew that because I didn't quite click on the right part of the screen to walk to that place. There were also some times when a lever or button was hard for me to see and I missed it many times. One dirty trick they do sometimes is that you'll open a door to go in a room and the door opens to cover another exit that you didn't know was there. There's no reason to ever shut the door again and so you miss it and get stuck. They pull that one a couple of times.

This is an amazing game. Graphics are old but beautiful. Sound is immersive. Puzzles are fascinating and the whole game is an experience that I keep going back to again and again.