Ether One is first a very pretty stylized game. It plays like real Myst. You can beat the game without any puzzle solving by collecting all of the ribbons from each area. If you want to just listen to a narrative on the lines of Dear Ester then you can go straight to the end. There are some really tricky puzzles, but I've found myself becoming too frustrated trying to track down the items I needed to solve the puzzles. Some of the pieces of a puzzle can be in a different area in a slightly cracked open broken safe behind a coach. Other puzzles are just read a note with a safe combination and find the safe. There are some really good and organized walkthroughs out there to help find items required to solve the puzzles, but you'll end up spoiling how to actually solve the puzzles in the process. One of the features I really like about the puzzle solving is that there is a central hub you can quickly teleport to and back again that you can store any item you believe is important, and it will automatically place important notes on the wall downstairs of the hub. I haven't played this type of the game in a while, not since Uru, but overall I've been happy with the game.
Never played it before, but I'm very happy so far. There are a ton of mods and patches for it with a community on GoG forums that will point you in the right direction. Two complaints are I assumed it was a real-time diablo style hack-n-slash with rpg elements, but it's turn-based. Second, is the camera panning is choppy. Seems like instead of scrolling smoothly it jumps 20px at a time.
