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Myst's spiritual successor offers a lot of the same delights as its 1993 forbear, but is hampered by litany of technical issues. It's a strange thing to think about now, but there was a time when Myst ...

Obduction, the highly rated first-person adventure game from Cyan, the makers of Riven (1997) and Myst (1993), has been available on traditional monitors for quite some time now, but what virtual ...

“Actually through the course of designing [Obduction], it swung back around much further to the spirit of Myst games than it ever was at first. It’s Myst in space,” says Cyan’s art director Eric ...

Get ready for the weekend by picking a cool video game for the low, low price of... nothing. GOG.com, the site formerly known as Good Ol’ Games, is giving away 2016 puzzle game Obduction for free as ...

Obduction's world — or, rather, worlds — can be confusing and more than a little daunting. Getting from the campground at the beginning to the explosive ending involves extensive teleporter travel and ...

It’s been nearly two decades since I played Myst, but I still remember being entranced by the fidelity of the pre-rendered graphics, yet so disheartened by my inability to progress further in the game ...

Myst might not shift CD-ROMs like it once did, but the names Robyn and Rand Miller ought to still carry some weight. Their latest, Obduction, comes at a time when PC gaming has re-embraced the ...

The town of Hunrath is displaced in time and space, a jumble of both the old and the new as well as the familiar and the exotic. Obduction is that kind of game as well. Obduction is the first ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. I often got real, physical headaches while playing Obduction. Towards the end of the game, I’d regularly get completely stuck when trying to solve a ...

If the likes of The Talos Principle and The Witness have pushed the envelope of the first-person puzzler, it looks like someone forgot to tell Obduction developer Cyan. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not ...