realMyst: Masterpiece Edition combines quiet Myst exploration with free-roam 3D environments, changing weather, and classic puzzles. At the current tracked low, ≈ $0.84 from Kinguin suits anyone seeking an atmospheric single-player adventure. Classic point-and-click navigation remains available beside free movement, while the bonus Rime Age adds a concluding stop for Myst fans.
It is best suited to players who enjoy reading clues closely and choosing their own route through the Ages. Day-night changes, autosave, bookmarks, and a hint guide make returning to the investigation easier without replacing its puzzle-focused core.With ≈ $6.35 saved against Steam, the matching offer costs less than Steam’s $7.19 price.
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01About realMyst: Masterpiece Edition
Explore Myst Island and other Ages in a single-player puzzle adventure with free-roam 3D movement or classic point-and-click navigation. Notes and ambient sounds provide clues through a story of intrigue and injustice.The Steam PC version includes changing weather and day-night cycles.It includes the original Myst Ages and the bonus Rime Age.The interface is available in English.Released on February 5, 2014.88%% positive from 1,393 reviews.
Credits
Developer
Cyan Worlds, Inc.
Publisher
Cyan Worlds, Inc.
Steam player reviews
88%positiveVery Positive1,393 Steam reviews
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Audio
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Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-19
02Before you buy
Play style
The Steam PC version is a single-player exploration adventure with free-roam 3D movement or classic point-and-click navigation.
Language and content
The interface is available in English, with full English audio listed. A bonus Rime Age acts as a bridge to Riven.
Exploration features
Dynamic weather, day-night cycles, autosave, bookmarks, and a hint guide support puzzle exploration.
03Frequently asked questions
What do you do in realMyst: Masterpiece Edition?
You explore Myst Island and other Ages, gather clues, and solve puzzles to address an ancient injustice.
Can I avoid free-roam movement?
Yes. The Steam PC version includes classic point-and-click navigation alongside free-roam 3D movement.
Which locations are included?
It includes the original Myst Ages and the bonus Rime Age.
What dynamic elements are included?
The environments feature changing weather, day and night, dynamic water, lighting, and foliage.
Popular Steam reviews
Native-language selection · 10 reviews
Selected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.
RecommendedSteam player
This is a wonderful game. This was my first game I ever owned back when I was a child, so I have a nostalgic bias. To the review; this game from the get-go is aesthetically 200% better. It looks like any indie FPS you can buy nowadays minus a tutorial and immediate plot. I put countless hours into this game as a child and never beat it. That was back before there was internet walkthroughs and developers who thought that you (the gamer) barely passed the second grade. I recommend this game to anyone who wants an relaxing, in-depth story told to them through puzzles, journal entries, and a non-hostile environment.
Good things to say about this game:
-Beautiful
-Flashlight feature is helpful
-Easy conversion from classic point-'n'-click to real-time first person.
-Story remains intact if not more immerse
-More brainpower and problem-solving required than any game on the modern market
Bad things to say about this game:
-Suffers from massive framerate drops in real time first person. I drop from 60+ FPS to around 15-20 frequently; it's not a hardware issue either, it's a frame cap.
-First person controls are different and take some getting use to (Letting off WASD brings up a cursor)
-Not a casual adventure game; requires hours upon hours to reveal the entire story, get through each puzzle (if you're new to the game), and navigate each area.
This is a time-consuming masterpiece. Mozart is to the Classical genre of music, as Myst is to Adventure games. Very few games deserve such artistic praise, this ranks number 1 on my list.Show moreShow less
3 hours at review450 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
RealMyst was a great step forward in rendering the world of Myst, using an early version of the engine later put to work in Uru and Myst 5. It was rough around the edges, the view distance was a little short, but it maintained Myst's atmosphere, and gave you the bonus of being fully present in the world.
RealMyst Masterpiece is not that. This is a port to the Unity engine, along with all the baggage of modern graphical realism. Bloom, motion blur, specular textures, all the things that make games look "real", utterly fail in this edition. The architecture of Myst no longer has that surreal appeal in the original slideshow or Plasma engine versions, but rather a horrible out of place look. There are points in RealMyst Masterpiece where iconic structures look like the worst examples of bad-CGI-inserted-into-live-action-film you can imagine. Gone is the sense that this is a real place you can let your brain fill in the blanks for; instead Unity brings all the trappings of photorealism, and ruins the look entirely. The remaining prerendered videos (the red/blue/green books, Atrus) are the same as they were in RealMyst, and their encoding artifacts stick out even more under Unity's shiny patina.
Pick up the original RealMyst, it still works fine on modern OSes. Support Cyan by purchasing Myst, or Riven, or Uru, or donate to Myst Online, or throw your hat in for Obduction. But don't let them feel this slapdash engine port was a good idea.Show moreShow less
4.4 hours at review298 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
As I've read the other reviews of this game, I've noticed that this is a "nostalgia game" for most people. I, however, have just played it for the first time (RealMyst Masterpiece, not the original). It has a lot of good points, but I gotta tell ya, there were some major gameplay issues that had me tearing my hair out at times. I'm sure some of that comes from trying to optimize an old game for new systems, but I was hoping for better. Still, I really enjoyed it and I'm glad I played it.
GOOD POINTS (as determined by a newbie to the series):
- Like everyone else has said, it's visually beautiful and imaginative.
- Soundtrack is lovely and very atmospheric.
- It was nice to know through the in-game "Hints" menu (which, yes, I had to check, for reasons described below) that this was a non-hostile environment! No waiting for something evil to jump out at me from the shadows, even though there are a few ominous things to see/hear. But nothing explicit - still family-friendly, I would say.
- The puzzles are truly creative, and that kept me interested. Every Age has a specific "theme" or "conceit" for how its puzzles work, but knowing the "theme" don't make 'em easy! As someone who grew up playing online Flash room escape games (and some point-and-click adventure games like The Neverhood), I was really impressed with the varied methods you had to use to solve them. Pro tip: don't try playing with the sound off. Ask me how I found that out. (Plus you'll miss the music and audio messages!)
- The story (which is why I play games) was tantalizing and left me wanting more.
- Having 2 options for navigation controls was handy.
- The day/night cycles for each age were cool and added to the immersive aspect.
- The flashlight was a HUGE help! I mean, you could probably get by without it, but I found it indispensable. I hate not knowing if I'm missing something because I'm in a dark area!
- The live acting wasn't half bad.
- Unfortunately, after finishing it, there isn't really anything "to do" in the different Ages, but I liked that you're able to go back and explore more if you want.
THINGS I DISLIKED:
- Oh. My. Gosh. The "clicking" mechanics absolutely drove me UP THE WALL! I usually had to click on a certain supposed-to-be-clickable area in 20 different places before it would work. And the "sweet spots," when I finally found them, were inconsistent.
- The other "clicking" problem was that I frequently would stop being able to click on anything all of a sudden. I'd try to click a button that I'd pressed a hundred times and nothing would happen, and then I'd discover I couldn't click anything else either (though the game didn't freeze). I usually had to reload a save, which was frustrating, although on rare occasions the problem went away after I visited the game menu and waited a few minutes. Still, VERY exasperating. I was never able to tell, the first time I tried to click on a new object, if it was truly clickable or if I was having another glitch. I had to resort to the Hints frequently just because of that.
- Sometimes I would get "stuck" navigationally: I wouldn't be able to leave/move away from a particular position or vantage point, though there was nothing obstructing me. Sometimes I could fix it by reloading, but sometimes I had to work my way back from an earlier save :/ I particularly had this problem while facing the battery in the Stoneship Age and while facing the ceiling above the elevator in the Mechanical Age.
- The game did crash on me - once, I think.
- There are certain times when you're supposed to be able to hear an audio message, but the music never muted or decreased its volume, so I could rarely hear what was said. I had to look up the transcripts online. Subtitles would've been a huge help.
- I had an issue with the red/blue pages where I could collect them both in each Age, but could only give away the one that I had collected last. This meant that I didn't get to hear some of the audio messages from the brothers.
- You kind of have to do the Selenitic Age first, though the game doesn't require you to (and I didn't). Certain puzzles in other Ages are extremely hard to beat without having been introduced to a particular puzzle from the Selenitic.
- Having only five available save-game slots was annoying to someone who's used to infinite saves :D Also, some of the saves actually took me back a little ways before where the save-point actually was - I couldn't really save while a puzzle was in progress.
In short, it's a great game, and it's fun to get to experience the great-granddaddy of all the point-and-click games I grew up with. That said, you definitely need to approach it with the knowledge that it's still an old game, despite its remastering. It has plenty of major bugs, but it's still good. I liked it enough that if they remade Riven and etc. I'd probably play them.Show moreShow less
9.9 hours at review235 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Fall of 1993 saw the release of two video games that were as different as night and day but shared two things: they both had four-letter names and they would both absolutely dominate the field until Half-Life came along a half-decade later. Of those two games, Doom was unmistakably the night, Myst the day. Doom coursed with motion; Myst held the gaze with its clarity.
This clunky 3d port is a sad echo of that landmark and does practically nothing to convey the shocking sharpness of the 1993 version. Whereas the original slideshow version was confined to a now inconceivably small window, it was pushing the limits for its time and rarely overplayed its hand. This supposedly more "real" thing is full of bad texture-mapping and barely passable lighting. Compared to the loving upkeep the Half-Life series has received in recent years, this hackneyed conversion is painful to witness.
(Regarding the gameplay: It's almost inevitable that the content in a game so far ahead of its time would age badly, but generally Myst has done pretty well. Compared to its first sequel, Riven, the structure feels rather contrived, but the puzzles are reasonably well balanced between codes, mazes, and mechanical mysteries.)Show moreShow less
5.6 hours at review22 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
I remember watching my dad play this game growing up and it mesmerized me. Now playing it, there is just as much wonder combined with nostalgia. I miss my dad, and every puzzle i solved made me think "see dad, I can do it too!"Show moreShow less
8.9 hours at review137 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
30 Mar 2014 :
After the last and only update so far the game runs fine, even on MAX settings, but only for about 10-15min, then I have maybe 1 or 2 fps. I have to restart the game and everything is well. Again, for 10-15min. Still waiting for a good patch.
7 Feb 2014 :
Sorry, but in this state you really can't recommend this game. I'am a huge MYST fan, have all the games, books and everything. So this one I bought the moment I saw it. But on my computer witch is a Intel I7 3630, Geforce 650GT with 2 GB DDR5 RAM, and 16 GB of RAM this game is unplayable. If it is on low details or on high details it dosen't matter. This game needs a patch. AND soon. I want to play it !!! I looks amazing, and to replay MYST with such wonderfull graphics will be amazing, but at least 30fps would be nice :)Show moreShow less
1.5 hours at review20 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
I played Myst as a kid, like what, 15-20 years ago? I would just walk around and click things, and I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. Today, I still have no idea what I'm doing. Love it.Show moreShow less
2.8 hours at review92 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
OK, "Myst" the game, deserves to be played by anyone, and it is to be recommended. as a game it stands the test of time, being a game with good puzzles, atmosphere, story etc. It is still THE game to compare different mystery/walking simulators against (which unfortunately shows the development of todays games, but lets not get into that..)
The RealMYST game, which brought actual walking to the game was a masterstroke to update the game to modern experiences, and good for it.
But this particular game here is not a masterpiece.
The graphics have not been updated very well. The textures are still so so,the leaves on the trees are poor, flat 2D planes, the effects are of early 2000s vintage, the lighting has in some places been updated to real shadows, but in others left in the old ray-tracing, and it gives a rather poor visual experience. And as the updated graphics are the primary reason why anyone would want to buy a new version of an old game, then the whole premise of the game goes out.
The sounds are (nearly) the same, with the slight change that many of the dramatic sound effects have been reduced in volume and effect. What was a huge bassy thump of the channelwood tree going up and down, is now a puny effect. What was a big mechanical gear sound of rotating the fortress is now just a small clicking.
It's also really difficult to hear Atrus' message to his wife as it is so low compared to the background music.
I really wanted this iteration of Myst to be good, but sadly it rather underwhelming.Show moreShow less
1.6 hours at review12 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Which Version of Myst Should I Get?
This is the updated version of Myst, complete with updated graphics, Steam achievements, a built-in hint guide and a bonus area.
If you want to play Myst as it originally was, warts and all, then get Myst: Masterpiece Edition, which is actually the Scumm VM version of Myst, so it's effectively a museum piece.
If you aren't sure which version of Myst to get, get realMyst: Masterpiece Edition (i.e. this version), because it's got more features, improved controls and graphics, Steam achievements and a bonus area.
What is Myst?
The original Myst was an innovative puzzle game from 1993.
For several years it was the best-selling PC Game, up until 2002 when that record was broken.
Myst is a first person 3D puzzle adventure game.
There are no enemies, no violence, no time limit, no death, and no gameover conditions until the very end.
You may carry only one item at a time.
There's quite a lot of freedom in the order in which you can do things and solve the puzzles.
There's very little hand-holding, and it can be quite tricky to make progress at times.
You should try your best to explore everywhere, and you would be well-advised to have a pencil and paper handy.
What Is The Objective?
The most I can tell you about the game's objective without spoiling the challenge is that the objective of the game is to collect certain objects (red and blue pages) from certain places (the ages of Myst) and return them to a central area (the library).
If you're happy to have a few spoilers, here's a better description of the game's objective, but still without spoiling any plot twists...
You must solve various puzzles to locate special books that will take you to other worlds called ages. When you're inside an age, you must solve various puzzles in order to find the books that will take you back to Myst, and find the hidden red and blue pages in the process.
What Other Myst Games Are There?
If you buy this game and enjoy it, play Riven next.
If you enjoy that, the 25th Anniversary Collection, contains all of the remaining games in the series.
Be warned that some are better than others, and people will readily argue about which ones they like and dislike.Show moreShow less
9.2 hours at review89 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
I strongly recommend Myst (I don't know about classical realMyst)
But don't you DARE buy realMyst : Masterpiec Edition. This remake is a fraud.
The game has all qualities and defaults the original Myst had :
- Great puzzles
- Various environments
- REALLY great puzzles
- Poor story
- Really mysterious and still no answers at the end
Well, if you like (more or less) difficults puzzles Myst is really a great game.
But realMyst : Masterpiece Edition IS NOT. The only positive point in this re-re-edition is that the graphics are really "good" (considering the original game). But the thing is that it is sold for 16 euros. With that you can buy 3 indie games, or a an old triple A during the solds.
Counting only on nostlagia and the hype around Myst, it's a shame the price is this high. Many achievements are buggy, you can't change controls for the "free roam" mode (which is really a problem if you're keyboard is azerty, it's not normal that you have to change your setup because you can't do it in game). Well, yes, I'm upset.
Don't support this kind of strategy.
Cyan, next time you want to remake one of your goldies, do it better or don't do it at all.Show moreShow less
13.3 hours at review12 people found this helpful
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