Riven (Legacy) for iPadOS

I explored Myst many moons ago and wanted to try Riven on my iPad. Got five minutes into wandering around this super cool world and made the bad decision to open the journal. After reading all of the entries, I could not “close” the journal and return to Riven. I tried tapping, touching, swiping, pinching but the journal won’t close. The help section offers no help. Maybe I’m stuck in the Prison Book but I thought that was stolen when I arrived.

I love playing this games. I’m so glad to play riven again. Lot easier to play on iPad then on the pc. Huge fan.

At least when I played on the pc, I could look around. This is no more than screen shots. Not a shred of 3d. I should have bought realMYST. I own both games from my PC days but cannot play them anymore. What a disappointment. Not worth it.

This is no realMyst equivalent. Instead of the smooth visual exploring experience, where you can see pretty much all vantage points fluidly, this has just N, S, E, W (and maybe up?) views that you toggle to using arrows. Also, when I found a letter and clicked on it, the image was pixelated! Agh!! Very disappointing. Waiting for realRiven to come out (hopefully!). Please don’t waste your money on this.

I played Myst/Riven/Myst III as a kid with my Dad. It gives me such nostalgia to be able to play them again and on my iPad too! They are exactly as I remember them too! The graphics are awesome! I’ve always loved the dialogue and the dynamic gameplay of these games, and you’ve captured it so well! Thank you for bringing these fabulous games to my iPad! Please, if I could make a request? Please, please make Myst III! Uru would be nice too, but please make Myst III! I often picture being able to play it on my iPad and long to do so!

How does this App have ANY good reviews? Absolutely terrible antiquated movement between scenes and the graphics are the lowest resolution I’ve ever seen on an app in 2020. Money down the toilet. I can’t imagine playing this game even for 5 minutes. The developers should be embarrassed that they put their name on this junk.

Hope they put other Myst games on iPad

Riven is one of my favorite games of all time, but this version is just disappointing. I have encountered a lot of video segments that either have out of sync audio, a lot of missing frames which makes everything stutter, or really low resolution. While the game is playable, the bad animation/video quality ruins the immersive experience.

I played both Myst and Riven when they were on DVDs. Was very happy to see them for the iPad. I Started Myst and was very happy to see how they even upgraded a lot of the surfaces. Yet Riven is a joke. I would like to get my money back. It is like they took photos of the screen from a 2 mpx camera and pieced it together. Please tell me they are working on an update and will make it available for all that purchased this verstion. Otherwise, don’t waiste your money.

I agree with the other negative reviews on the game play. This is unplayable. I loved Myst and Riven back in the day. I thought real myst for iPad was pretty good, I was hoping for at least the same level of game play here, BUT WAS SEVERELY DISAPPOINTED. It is extremely difficult to navigate and orient yourself throughout the game. I’m a little surprised that Cyan would release a version like this given their previous commitment to excellence. Definitely want my money back.