Myst Masterpiece Edition

I'll start by saying that I recently played Myst and then Riven, both of which I had played back when they originally came out. I absolutely loved playing Riven--it affirmed all my positive memories. Not so much with Myst. A couple reasons: 1. The graphics: I'm not a graphics snob, and enjoy plenty of old games--the problem is that the graphics make some of the puzzles frustrating--more than once I had to look up hints only to realize I was stuck because I didn't realize a brown line was actually a lever or something like that. 2. The puzzles: again, I loved Riven and was able to complete that entire game without any help, so it's not that I'm bad at puzzle games. But I found that Myst puzzles too often required you to make assumptions or know just where/how to click an object--in other words, not all the puzzles could be solved by logic alone. 3. Navigation: Related to the graphics, is that I often found it hard to know if I had successfully traversed all of a given area--not sure how to quite describe it, but I at times found myself unintentionally going in circles. Despite those three points, I enjoyed it enough to finish it, and I got some nostalgia value from it. In brief, while I don't regret buying it on sale, it doesn't hold up compared to Riven.

This is one of the games that started me playing on a PC way back in the early to mid 90's and I loved every minute of it all the way to the 3rd part where I kind of quit the franchise until I pick it up when it goes on sale.

Works great even on windows 11. And linux

It is now 2025 and this was my first time playing this game. Besides the low resolution and the clock puzzle it aged quite well.

I think game like these are too hard but I wanted to share the solution i came up with to make it run on XP since the SCUMMVM included with the installer isn't compatible with this version of Windows. All you have to do is go on to Scummvm's official site and download the version for Windows XP and drag and drop the entire folder in the Scummvm folder of the game.