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Myst

2020-12-10

Developer: Cyan WorldsPublisher: Cyan Worlds

Oculus VR, Meta Quest 2, Series X|S, PC, Mac, Oculus Rift, XONE, Oculus Quest

Single playerFirst person, Virtual Reality

Puzzle

Adventure

Indie

Fantasy

Mystery

Explore the unreal Ages of Myst in a new dimension! Welcome to Myst: the starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Explore the deeper connections and uncover a story of ruthless family betrayal. Cyan, the indie studio that created the beloved classic, has reimagined Myst. Built from the ground up to play in VR and flatscreen PC, with new art, sound, interactions, and even optional puzzle randomization. The highly anticipated Myst VR experience has finally arrived! Journey to the Ages, unravel the puzzles, and be a part of the surrealist world that will become your own.

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LiliaReviewed a game6 months ago

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GREAT CLASSIC! Sad about the lack of original FMV at the end though.

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Lilia

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6 months ago

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katarina_ioriReviewed a game7 months ago

Myst

7 hours

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Ремастер достойный внимания. Головоломка не для всех, но история стоит внимания. Очень красиво сделано окружение, необычное повествование. Местами ломает мозг 😅

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MicheleBoydReviewed a game12 months ago

Myst

thank god i had chat to hold my hand the entire time. just as frustrating as i remember is being in the 90s, but obviously a gorgeous game

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BradaloopReviewed a game12 months ago

Myst

6 hours

Following in the footsteps of 2014’s realMyst – the first remake of the 1993 classic – Myst 2021 once again reimagines the original Myst in 3D, and it looks and plays better than it ever has. Myst 2021 absolutely enamoured me, and as someone who hadn’t even heard of the game until the remake’s announcement, I think that’s a testament to how well the puzzles and atmosphere has held up. Myst is quite short – only around 6 hours long (or less, if you nail the puzzles) – but it's occupied my headspace from start to finish, even when I wasn’t actually playing it. There were two occasions during my playthrough where, after struggling on a puzzle, I decided to put the game down, only for me to have epiphanies about these puzzles in my time away. This may just be because I don’t play many strictly puzzle games, but I don’t think this has happened to me with any other puzzle game that I’ve played. Despite the somewhat low-resolution textures, Myst looks fantastic in this new version, which is a testament to just how strong the new art direction is. Each of the worlds you encounter are visually striking. Purists may turn their noses up at some of the graphics changes, as the style is quite different to all that came before it, but as someone new to Myst I think it looks better than it ever has. Though, it is curious that the stoneship age – one of the various small worlds you explore – is so bright in this version. Every other re-release and remake of the original re-imagined this world as foggy and overcast, but this remake instead chose to interpret the faded light of the original as a sort of cloudy, ethereal sunset. I don’t have a strong opinion on whether this is better or worse – it’s just interesting that the relative consistency in the previous interpretations was intentionally ignored for a re-interpretation. Myst runs fantastic on my RTX 3060/i5-12400F computer, which is impressive given how good it looks. I imagine the small scale and scope of each world are a major factor in this. Myst runs on Unreal Engine 5, though I didn’t notice any of the unfortunate hallmarks that PC players have come to expect from Unreal Engine games. There’s either little to no shader compilation or traversal stutter, or the scale of each world allows this to fade into the background. Impressively, this version of Myst supports VR, and I’d definitely recommend trying this if you can. I already found the worlds of Myst to be particularly immersive, but this is exacerbated tenfold in virtual reality. I played through about 60% of the game in VR, though I’d likely have played more if my PC could stomach higher settings. I generally found that the game didn’t run particularly well in VR – at least using a Quest 2 and a link cable – without me changing each and every graphical setting to low and also using a DLSS performance mode. Myst lends itself incredibly well to virtual reality, and the VR version is about as good as it can be. This remake does a great job of adapting the point and click original to 3D, and in particular adds buttons, handles, and other visual indicators that something can be interacted with to a lot of the objects in the game world. Again, fans of the original may dislike how these changes ground some of the fantastical factors of the original game, but – particularly in VR, where it would feel especially bad to attempt interaction with random objects – these changes are somewhat necessary. I didn’t particularly care for the story of Myst, though it’s more that I didn’t really care about its presence. It’s not really a focus of the game, though you’re absolutely meant to be curious about it, and I was, but I didn’t really have any strong feelings about it one way or the other. Mission success, I suppose. The sparse re-tooled FMV sections are about as corny as can be expected from a 1993 game in this genre – whether using the original videos or not – but I can’t really imagine Myst without them. Myst is incredibly hands-off, which is part of what I like about it, but I think that could be off-putting to some players. It’s not particularly difficult persay, but it requires experimentation, and sometimes pauses for thought. Spending some time to allow everything to soak in may be needed, and if that doesn’t sound like it’s for you then I don’t think Myst will be. Though some puzzles in Myst effectively just ask you to look elsewhere for the key piece of information that solves them for you, it still feels satisfying to complete each one. This key fact is why I enjoyed Myst so much, and I’m honestly not sure how I’d not stumbled upon a whole game – or perhaps a whole series of games – containing puzzles that are exactly what I want out of a game. If you’re the type of person who’d find the click of an opening door after you solve a puzzle satisfying, I definitely think you should give Myst a go, especially for the decent price that it goes on sale for.

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Bradaloop

Myst

1 year ago

Myst Island 🌲🏛️⛰️🌲

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DragonSoul_L

Myst

1 year ago

Das Adventure/Puzzle "Myst" hatte mir damals schon gut gefallen; als ich es zusammen mit meinem Dad spielte. Es ist mir in Erinnerung geblieben und oft habe ich begeistert davon erzählt. Im Juli 2024 spielten auch wir, im Stream, die neue Version von "Myst". Es waren Stunden voller Ratlosigkeit, Frust, Gelassenheit und Freude. Der DragonFam gefiel es! ^^

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ParagrimmReviewed a game2 years ago

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Top Game! Fairerweise habe ich nie andere Adventure Games gespielt, aber Myst ist einfach absolut fantastisch. Kann ich jedem empfehlen, der Lust auf ein Spiel hat, welches den Fokus auf Erkundung und dazu eine raffinierte kleine Story erzählt. Die Bücher, welche im Spiel zu finden und zu lesen sind, deuten an, dass es eine umfangreiche Lore gibt und sich im Vorfeld schon viele Gedanken zum Spiel gemacht wurden. Bemerkenswert ist auch, dass das Spiel von 7 Leuten entwickelt wurde und lange das meistverkaufte PC Spiel war! Schade, dass solche Spiele nie wieder an Popularität gewinnen werden. Myst hat 1993 Spiele wie Doom locker (!) in den Schatten gestellt. Heutzutage unvorstellbar. Obgleich Doom natürlich auch ein fantastisches Spiel ist, sind solche Spiele aber heute viel viel populärer und beliebter. Woher kam der Wandel?

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cafe_datardeReviewed a game3 years ago

Myst

I played with some friends and we were fascinated by the game, there were only a few times when the game crashed and we couldn't finish the puzzle, but otherwise it's amazing. When I finished the game and went to see some VR gameplay I realized that it can be much better if you have one to play with.

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marsianosopReviewed a game3 years ago

Myst

Un juegazo, las mejoras graficas son increibles

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blem14Reviewed a game3 years ago

Myst

Too short. Riddles are really well made and logical, but one case requires to be done after another to actually solve it, not brute force. No tutorial given, some things have to written down, old school, I like it.

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Rasteri

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3 years ago

Played this with my parents as a child. :)

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