Humble Bundle: Myst & More

Includes Obduction, Myst, Riven, Uru and others

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I feel like Cosmic Osmo is doing something that would best be kept behind closed doors

Why did I buy this? It's just as confusing as 25 years ago
- I'm probably gonna and I tried Myst remake when it was on gamepass and still ended in a dead end just like I did back in the early days of CD-ROM.
  But man they have some atmosphere tho.
- My thoughts exactly. Did people back then really enjoy myst or do they just pretend to be nostalgic for it because it makes them sound smart to the other people who are also pretending to be nostalgic for it?
  
  I honestly enjoyed it. And I won it. It was very difficult and I did need help from my brother at one specific spot, but I won it. Now Riven, no one enjoyed Riven.
  
  Played through it for the first time when the remake came out and really enjoyed it, no nostalgia here.
  It's certainly not for everyone, not for any big brain elitist reasons, it's just a game you want to sit down with a notepad and play which isn't what everyone wants out of a leisure experience. But some people watch trains go by with their notepads out and I don't understand them either.

An amazing set of games. Myst and Riven always captured my imagination and I spent hours and hours playing them back when they first came out. Obduction was a really cool throwback, too. Glad to see the series getting the attention it deserves with newer gamers.
- Have you played Machinarium?
  
  Yes. I would say it was a good game but my heart really belongs to the old school pre-rendered environments and FMV cutscenes.
- Interesting that I don't see Firmament mentioned. Is it just too new to be in this bundle?
  
  It's been released two months ago, it would be really weird to put it on such a deep discount so soon.

I never finished Myst as a kid because my dad was so big on horror games, I assumed Myst would get spooky. Also link to bundle. https://www.humblebundle.com/games/myst-more-redux-30-years-myst

I really liked Obduction. It was a rock solid puzzle game but omg the loading screens were a huge detractor. You had to move between multiple areas to solve some of the puzzles and to do so you got a loading screen which took it's toll on the immersion factor.
- You just reminded me of that maze rotation puzzle where the controls for rotation were behind a very long loading screen. That was just pure torture. I almost gave up on the game right there. Wtf were the devs thinking?
  
  This was the one that almost broke me. I got so bored I ended up listening to music while waiting for the loading screens.
- @skua@kbin.social. The only puzzle I remember getting hung up on was the base 4 math puzzle. Math and I don't get along so I looked up the answer only to discover that the input/drawing part was wonky and had to be cheated or brute forced.
  
  I was lucky in a sense that I'm quite mathematically minded, I suppose. I believe that they actually patched the game so that it was always possible to return to the conversion machine in Hunrath though, so that players could always reference that if they weren't getting along with the base 4 stuff
- I agree, great game with some big occasional frustrations. That puzzle near the end where the clue wasn't working properly so they just patched it out altogether was a real bother for me. "Ahh there's a bug. Let's just make everyone have the bug" sure is a wild approach to fixing things

I still haven't played myst. How would you describe it today? Are there any game or genre comparisons to help decide if I'll like it, or if I'll decide I'm dumb and ragequit?
- Puzzles - it's all just peaceful puzzles, like overly elaborate contraptions to open doors or unlock new areas. There are no enemies or time pressure. When it was released, there was no way to look stuff up to solve them, so it was really captivating.
  Try really hard not to google the solutions, since solving them by yourself is really satisfying.
  Edit: Can't really think of a modern equivalent, or I would buy it. If you "rage quit", there's something wrong with you - it's way too mellow for that. You might want to take a break and come back, but you're not gonna be hurling controllers.
  And it's kind of pseudo 3D - like from each position, you can click forward, and look around from a new vantage point, but you don't seamlessly navigate a 3d space like a modern game.
  
  Perhaps I'm using "ragequit" a little broadly.
  Sometimes I really enjoy a puzzle. I managed to solve the majority of the witness without help, but then looked online for some context clues that opened a whole extra stage of puzzles that I found enjoyable. I also loved opus magnum and it's visual puzzles.
  On the other hand, Baba is you, and exapunks broke my brain. I tried so hard to try and understand both of them, I skipped levels and came back to the ones I struggled on, but I just had to admit: I'm too stupid sometimes. So I had to stop, and I've never been back to them.
  More of a dumbquit than a ragequit. But I'm still angry at myself today for not being smart enough for those games!

For those wondering, it’s the same bundle as the one from January 2022, but now it includes Myst 2021 in the top tier, instead of a coupon for the same game.

When I got a PC with the novel CD-ROM I convinced my father to take me to a pc store and buy me some games to try it.
I got The 7th Guest and Myst... I played them for a few hours and didn't understand anything. I guess I wasn't their intended audience.

Does anyone know: can you buy Humble Bundle games and play them through Steam?
- Most games sold by Humble (both bundles and the store) are Steam keys (usually indicated by a Steam icon).
- Yeah most of them come as steam codes.

The Manhole was eye-opening as a kid, I’m excited to see if it’s as weird as I remember!

oooo, thanks!

I never could get into these games.

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