Uru: Complete Chronicles

Anything Cyan made/make/will make I will definitely buy. I like how you can run shards in URU CC. They do have Myst Online Uru Live (mystonline.com) for free if anyone is interested, we're trying to get the word out so that Cyan Worlds will still see this as an investment!

This is a fantastic game, assuming you are into this sort of thing, which is why I am giving it five stars. The only thing is that you can pretty much get it for free, with additional stuff, and with multiplayer (the way it was originally intended) by playing Myst Online: Uru Live. Look it up on google, register, and get this game for free.

UrU is a weird little chapter in the Myst series. It lacks the immersion of the originals (since you have a clumsy avatar) but overall it's an OK adventure game. It does have it's moments, the environments are pretty cool and the sountrack is great. It has some environmental puzzles and light platforming type stuff which kinda suck. overall If you liked the original games the main UrU game is good for a lark, especially at sale price. I think if you weren't into Myst at all It would not be as interesting as a stand-alone game. DLC note: "To D'ni" really just has some story stuff, no true content. mostly shows off the hub area the MMO would have had. Path to the shell has what I feel is probably THE WORST puzzle I have ever encountered in an adventure game. It's abysmal. So much so I'll spoil it in this review if you wish to save some headache: SPOILER ALERT: to beat path of the shell you must.... stand in one spot for ~13 minutes. No joke. that DLC culminates in finding an egg timer on a shelf, from which you must construe a unit of time. which happens to be like 12+ minutes.. The solution to the grand puzzle is standing on a button for 12 minutes without moving.

Finish playing Uru (again). Like the game. I played it on my Surface 6, with Intel UHD Graphics 620. So it's certainly NOT incomatible with Intel cards, as stated in the requirements site.

Intrepid adventurers familiar with Myst will find a bit of a bastard stepchild in Uru. The Ages Beyond Myst was born from the desire to take modern day explorers to the fabled ancient subterranean city of D'ni in ways Myst and Riven could not - in real time 3D. Having initially been envisioned as a persistent online adventure, players will dress their own avatar and explore the ages beyond Myst in 3rd person. Because of the dramatic shift in context and presentation, players who are less intimate with the Myst mythos than your average die hard fan might feel a tad out of place in Uru wondering what any of it has to do at all with its predecessors. But the Myst essentials are all present. Namely, compelling puzzles and richly realized and beautifully rendered alien environments that are so vivid you can't help but get swept up in them. Some awkward controls, cumbersome platforming and the inability to pick up and carry physics objects needed to solve puzzles all plague the game's interface. Explorers might find themselves hard pressed to get involved in the game's narrative as the story is toned down a notch, weaving a somewhat awkwardly delivered tale about the follies of a lost civilization from a mysterious character players are never fully introduced to while piecing together bits and scraps of largely inconsequential exposition from journals and recordings that are little more than nonessential filler. Make no mistake, Uru's adventure is still one of the series best despite being rather removed from its predecessors and a bit cumbersome at times. Uru is every bit as immersive as its predecessors. The challenges are a bit less cunning than before, but enjoyable nonetheless. Uru stands as the quintessential modern Myst. A vivid reimagining for a new age. And a remarkable experience that is to be lived to be believed.