PC User Reviews

Great followup to Myst. Wraps up the story that was established in that game pretty well. I feel like it kind of lost that whimsical adventure feeling of Myst though. Still, I think it's good and the puzzles are fun, if sometimes a bit obtuse to decipher.

Do you like puzzle games? If yes, this game isnt for you. Do you like cracking codes and a very graphically pleasing walking sim? If yes this is the perfect game for you. This games suffers probabilly from the old age because most of the "puzzles" (the one you can see on their total) are extremely easy but the very hard part of the game is cracking codes that if you dont find every piece of information you are pratically locked. I had no problem finish all the puzzles on games like talos 2 and 1 but in this even with a guide it was too much effort and too much backtracking with slow af animations that i was sitting most of the time in my phone

Riven is ultimately best game ever made. thanks for bringing it back to modern times.

I played it in VR, and I finished without walkthrough :) * Play it in VR if you can! I switched back to 2D from time to time to read the journals, and it was a hard time to return to 2D :) + Beautiful graphics (with glitches). But still: top job + The world really wanted me to keep exploring. + Interesting story I guess. + Good that you need pen and paper to finish the game - No guide or sense as what to do next. - Reading (too many) journals is very hard in VR. - Many dead ends. In the end I enjoyed Riven, but I won't play another game in the series.

Puzzles: 9 (balanced with observational and logical puzzles. Best I've played yet, but would prefer world building had an even larger role in puzzles) Characters Graphics (VR): 9 (superb graphics for VR) Soundtrack: 8.5 (pretty much spot on to enhance the vibe) Ending: 8.5 (nothing mind blowing, but gets the job done) Ice cream: 8.4/10

A beautiful world in which I got deeply immersed. Most of the puzzles are really well integrated into the world and the story. Difficulty level is sometimes a bit uneven, but it's all about curiosity, attention, and slow savoring - quite the opposite to how games and other kinds of entertainment work nowadays.

I've been playing in VR and it looks and sounds amazing. Very immersive and interesting puzzles. I've had a couple issues with the VR implementation including rhe screen turning black and the game eventually crashes while in the submersible, but I hope that will be fixed soon.

I was obsessed with the Myst series growing up. Myst was the first time I remember sitting down at the computer to play a game (with my parents sitting beside me on fold-up chairs), before that it was gaming consoles and platforming. When Riven came out it was beyond the expectations set by Myst, everything was worn and detailed even from those tiny 608x392 pixel images. 27 years later and this remake comes out and blows away all of my expectations out of the water! Everything is still worn and lovingly crafted and even more detailed at 4K resolution! The one thing I was most surprised by was this wasn’t just a simple remake, many areas and puzzles are shifted or reworked! So it was wonderful to not simply be on autopilot solving puzzles, but like a brand new player I had to work out the solutions all over again! Most are excellent reworkings while keeping the core of the puzzle intact. There’s honestly very little that’s a misstep in this Riven! I would say the biggest flaw in this version is how people are rendered and presented. It makes sense with the move to full 3D and VR that the original FMVs couldn’t be adapter nor reshot for the remake. But I wish that the people weren’t so staunchly placed in the Uncanny Valley! There’s something strange about the rendering/textures and the animations (especially with Ghen’s guard and the finale) seem very disjointed. I only mention it because the world is so realistic and detailed, having the people being so much less so really places a giant spotlight on it. But still, that issue aside, Riven is well worth it for new and old players (old players that keep an open mind)! It’s just such an incredible game that pays loving tribute to the original while also forging its own path!

Atrus' speech at the beginning... why was it changed? The suspense in what he said in the original was lost, given the dialog change. And then we pop into a world that is free roam, surely, but the mystery is gone. The real actors, gone. The puzzles have been changed, several to many of them. This feels like a fan remake, I'm afraid. I think a proper remaster would have been enough.

This is the most cryptic puzzle game I've ever played. Myst is a cakewalk compared to this. I didn't understand half of the story and I completely missed the point of it. The game loves to waste your time - waiting for the all the animations to complete - be it climbing, riding trams, submarines, mining carts, elevators, opening rotating domes - a large percentage of the game is just waiting for the same thing to happen as slow as possible. I'll never play this again.

Imagine you listened to a record as a child (some 27 years ago) and you noticed that it contained the most beautiful and immersive music, inspite of the record having scratches on many parts that hindered fully enjoying the music. But you listened to this record again and again, because you understood that it is enchanting like no other music that has been composed before and ever since afterwards. And now, 27 years after you first listened to the record you can listen to it again. But this time with all the scratches and flaws being removed, revealing now its full beauty. Riven is my old record and I can't stop being captivated in its world which I visited a long time ago. And I want to return to this world time and time again. The remake of Riven proves that computer games are more than just ... games. They form the worlds that we take inspiration from. And which become a part of us ... now and forever.

Still completely illogical and frustrating to play despite no longer needing to swap CDs and being able to take screenshots. It's a visually gorgeous game, but it's a terrible puzzle game. There's way to much guesswork, too much noticing tiny details, and too little logic to solving the puzzles. Don't expect anything remotely similar to modern logical puzzle games like Portal, The Talos Principle, and The Witness.

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The terms "remake" or "reimagining" elicit eye-rolls as, often, they're nothing more than cash grabs banking on a fanbase's nostalgia. They may be prettier, higher resolution, and capable of running on more powerful machines, but they don't normally add anything to the game. When I heard Riven was being remade, I was incredibly hesitant. In 1997, Riven was a masterpiece of environmental storytelling. Its visuals, plot, and puzzles were heralded as pushing the success of Myst forward. But why, after all these years later, did we need to return to the islands of Riven? It turns out that returning to Riven is not just a fantastic way to revisit a game I loved; it's also an altogether new game. The puzzles are redone, the story is expanded, and for a game that had a story tied together with small hints, Riven's remake builds more on those tiny elements of lore and rewards those whose curiosity drives them to piece things together. The visuals are stunning, as usual. That Cyan, a small developer in Spokane, built this world so wonderfully is a testament to the team's passion and skill. This is a game to be pulled into, to experience, to live in. This is a remake, true, but one that was built from scratch and delivers more than its exquisite predecessor.

Beautiful remake of a fantastic classic adventure/puzzle game, expanding on the lore and world of one of the best-realized places in video game history.

My favourite videogame of all time, now with added areas and puzzles which match the high standards of aesthetics and puzzle-design. This is a world you will want to live in. The world-building is some of the absolute greatest in the videogame medium, and is certainly *the* best in the adventure puzzle game genre.

it’s hard to separate my feelings about the original from this review, but I love both. Even more than 20 years later, the world of Riven remains utterly unique: a little steampunk, a little fantasy, a little tropical, and a little Midwest American desert. And the design is still nearly unique, too. The game really only has two massive, map-spanning puzzles—the meat of your time should and will be spent in understanding the world and its factions through masterful environmental storytelling. Understand why the puzzles are in the world, who made them, and who is intended to solve them, and the solutions will slowly fall into place. All of that was true about the original, and all of it remains true in this excellent, thoughtfully updated remake. The world has been substantially expanded in ways that make it more internally consistent (the delineation between public and private spaces, for example, is now almost completely consistent and coherent in a way the original didn’t manage) and both main puzzles have been overhauled for the better. The high quality of the remade portions kept me in the same world, the changes renewed my sense of mystery and excitement to explore, and the additions all felt natural and awe-inspiring to encounter. It wasn’t all great. Even today, real-time 3D graphics can’t quite generate the same feeling of reality as the pre-rendered scenes of the original, and the necessary loss of FMV pulls you out of the world a little as well. Running the new game on an older CPU, I had fairly frequent crashes, but I think that was more the fault of my old rig than the game itself. In all, as a fan of the old game I would call this an incredibly successful release. I hope that a newcomer to the series will give it a chance, too. There’s really nothing like this on the market—give yourself a chance to get lost for a few hours, you won’t regret it.