Myst Masterpiece Edition

Seriously, I too dismissed it as a fancy visual novel with point and click logic, it's not. While the game only gives you a note to go off of, it is designed to be intuitive and easy to figure out the logic just by clicking randomly. Best analogy I can think of is fiddling with an old toy that has secret compartments, you experiment with the buttons until something happens, and if you get stuck you can find the manuel inside the messy drawer that's nearby. I will give this tip for free though, try holding down the lever.

I remember when my parents got Myst several years ago, or at least my mom did. She didn't want me to play it without her at first, so I just watched the making and I was so intrigued, even at only 6 years old, that I couldn't help but start a new game without her. Over the next several months my parents and I worked at that game through, since we were new to the genre, and kept the original paperback journal full of our notes, sketches of maps, notes of where things were.. It was amazing. I don't think I've ever gotten so into a game until I got Riven. Both games are truly a must-have and encourage critical thinking -- something we really lack in modern games. 5/5 from me!

"Myst" first came out in 1993, and changed the games industry, making CD-ROMs into a popular format and selling some 10 million copies. The graphics, while technically dated, are still brilliantly art-directed. The music is also excellent, and the puzzles, while fairly difficult, are diverse and logical, and definitely solvable, especially with the Masterpiece Edition's embedded hint guide! This game was followed by "Riven" in 1997, which was done with over ten times the budget of Myst and photoreal graphics. Riven is also an exceptional game with a superb story and puzzles seamlessly integrated into the gameworld - and, of course, wonderful sound design. Three more sequels followed Riven, all of them great games. There's also Uru, which is/was a huge, realtime 3d Myst MMO, but it was cancelled. Cyan Worlds (the Myst creators) plan to rerelease it as an open-source game, as soon as they can raise enough spare cash to assign the needed staff to do so. So, basically, by buying Myst and Riven here at GoG, you're not only getting two legendary classic games that are well worth it in their own right, you're also speeding up the release of a Myst MMO and its game engine, world creation toolset, etc, as freeware. In any case, Myst is a great game, the first in a series of great games. Highly recommended!

I played this game when it first came out, I loved it than and still do now. I have played all the Myst games and was very sad to learn that Myst 5 was the last. I do have a queation about patches for Myst and Vista, where do I find them I got to talk to Atrus but the Myst book doesn't work and I can't grt the white page.

Myst is a great start in the series, not too challenging but at the same time it sets the pace for the rest of the series. Also, for the time the game was released the pre-rendered graphics were a great move by the team.