Myst Masterpiece Edition

This was the best selling PC game of all time until The Sims and its endless content packs. Unfortunately it is one of the worst games ever made. Dull, pointless, slow and laughably non-interactive. It will bore you senseless with its abstract puzzles and flick screen movement. It was a dog when it was released and will be far worse now. It was the vanguard of a whole host of tedious drivel (mostly from CRYO it has to be said) that died off fairly quickly. This should be dropped down a well and covered in concrete. Avoid like the plague.

Ooooffff... Myst... what can I say? It didn't age well at all lol. To be fair, I never played this game when I was a kid, so there is no nostalgia factor with me. With that being said, I did not think this was a good game at all. The only reason I gave it two stars instead of one is because it is such a famous/historical game and it does deserve our respect in that sense. I thought "realMyst" was much better than the original Myst. I would recommend giving that one a try. It improved the graphics and game mechanics a lot in my opinion. But honestly, even that version of Myst was lacking compared to Riven. Riven is where it's at! So in conclusion, give this game a try for curiosity's sake, or revisit it for nostalgia's sake, but don't expect anything amazing.

I bought this a while ago, and it was 32 bit! Now it is 64 and REQUIRES windows 10?! Because of this destruction of classic games, I will not EVER support their game corruption program, and neither should anybody else.

Before Myst, adventure gaming was a vibrant genre, full of fantastic, living worlds with intriguing characters, story-based puzzles, and witty dialogue. Highlights of the era range from Infocom's early Zork games to graphical masterpieces Secret of Monkey Island and Simon the Sorceror. After Myst, adventure games described drab, dead worlds with no characters whatever, utterly nonsensical "logic" puzzles, and the occasional monologue.

I am dumbfounded by the number of 5-star reviews. I remember Myst CDs being in a little display next to the register for $5 in my local Babbages for what seemed like a decade in the perfect spot for your clueless grandma to buy you a copy for your birthday. Ignorance of quality is the only logical explanation for someone actually liking this game. This game was many folks first exposure to a computer game more complex than solitaire and did have graphics which were impressive at the time. I can see being impressed by this game in this scenario (particularly if it was 1995ish). I mean, if you've never seen a car before, even an AMC Gremlin would seem like a wondrous thing. What I don't understand is people who are still impressed with the Gremlin when they've been exposed to Ferraris, Bentleys, Porsches, or heck, even a Mustang or a Focus. Myst was the farmville of its time. The game non-gamers played in droves and gamers couldn't figure out why. While we were playing Xcom, doom, TIE fighter, Ultima Underworld and oh so many good adventure games from lucasarts (full throttle, Monkey Island games, Sam&Max, Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle, etc) and other studios, they played Myst and Riven as we shook our heads. There are so many classic adventure games that are so much better than this one, it confuses me how people would still hold this in high regard. Terrible game, terrible puzzles, terrible story. Not worth revisiting.