Myst Masterpiece Edition

"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.

Myst is one of the very first games to attempt a photorealistic style, leading it to be one of the most popular games of its time. Though the adventure game genre has long passed, Myst still holds up as an interesting, intriguing game in its own right. The sequel, Riven, is much longer and much better, but still this game is very much worth playing. Pick it up!

It takes a lot of patience and observational skills to play games like Myst. You really have to pay attention to every little thing you see in the game and try and figure out how those things can help you throughout. If you are patient and do not get easily frustrated this game just might make your day. For sure one of those unappreciated classics!