

You’ll also have your first encounter with two brothers who have been trapped inside red and blue books in the library. Virtually all of these places and things can be interacted with in some way, but figuring out exactly what they do is up to you.
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Around the island you’ll find a series of toggles, a sunken ship, a rocket ship, an observatory, library, power station, and so much more. You’re given no immediate explanation of what to do or where to go. Myst starts you off on the dock of a small island (the titular, Myst Island). Mystified yet?Īs there is likely, by now, an entire generation who would have no idea what Myst is, let’s start with the basics.

Finally in 2020, we can play this remaster of a remake of Myst on the Nintendo Switch. It was initially released in 2000 before itself being remastered in 2014 as RealMyst Masterpiece Edition, and updated to version 2.0 in 2015. The concept of RealMyst then is to take the classic game and make it more approachable to modern gamers who may not have grown up with it. At the time, this was cutting edge while still being very easy to run on computers of the time.

The original Myst used an extensive series of still images to abstractly represent a rich, living 3D world. All that being said, it is also a glorified slideshow. is to 2D platformers, and its importance to history cannot be overstated. Myst is to adventure games as Super Mario Bros. Its design has had a major influence on everything from Nintendo’s own Metroid Prime to TV shows such as Lost. Since its initial release in 1993, Myst has existed as the gold standard of point-and-click adventure games. Myst is a major bullet point in the history of game design.
