New game coming from the creators of Myst and Riven!

[rivenwanderer]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cyaninc/obduction

New game, new setting/universe, single-player adventure game in the Unreal 4 engine. Only will happen if it gets funded! I'm so excited about it ^__^

I occasionally feel weird about being such a huge, outspoken fan of the Myst series--I'm a girl, and Myst is so often dismissed by "hardcore" gamers, so it's easy to feel like I'm not helping the "girls are Real Gamers too, darnit!" cause. But you know what, I love what I love!

Anyone else have fond memories of the Myst games?

ETA: in case anyone else is both a Myst fan and likes tabletops, there's also a Kickstarter for a Myst/D'ni RPG based on the FATE system :)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1748001141/unwritten-adventures-in-the-ages-of-myst-and-beyon

Comments

[stellaproiectura]

You know, I've always wanted to get into Myst? It seemed ominously dark; like, it appealed to curiosity, but it also had a tinge of the slightly macabre.

I don't think there's anything 'softcore' about adventure games, rivenwanderer! I'd like to see any 'hardcore gamer' get the brainpower to solve any adventure game from the 1990s. We've become so conditioned to the concept of the 'tutorial level' that the idea of problem solving beyond 'shooting a rock to have a better vantage point' is threatening.