The entire Myst series now plays nice with modern PCs

Credit score the place it’s due, whereas GOG aren’t fairly as retro-focused as they was (now enjoying the function of a extra conventional video games retailer) they’ve nonetheless acquired that magical contact for making older video games work on newer programs. Till right this moment, Cyan World’s genre-defining Myst journey collection has been incomplete on PC.

One of many large guarantees of Cyan’s large collector’s edition kickstarter in April was that GOG can be updating the third and fourth video games within the collection to run properly on trendy machines. At this time, they delivered in full – the story is full, and unabridged as soon as extra.

Followers of obtuse however fairly FMV adventures can have a good time as soon as extra. Myst III: Exile and Myst IV: Revelation are actually working as supposed. Beforehand, these video games had been an absolute bear to get engaged on trendy programs, as they got here from a darkish period earlier than video, software program, or OS requirements. Whereas a lot extra video games have been misplaced to the sands of time because of this notably rocky interval of PC gaming historical past, it’s nice to see one other couple restored to full functioning order.

Myst III and IV had been made at a time when the collection title carried important weight, so roping in some real expertise for its overly-greenscreened FMV segments wasn’t that arduous. Amongst Myst IV’s mixture of lesser-known actors is Genesis front-man Peter Gabriel, and Myst III has Brad Dourif (an incredible, offbeat actor in his personal proper, and properly solid in Dishonored as Piero Joplin) there to steal the present every time he’s in entrance of the digicam.

Whereas I’m no nice fan of Myst (or level and click on journey video games generally, regardless of rising up on a gradual weight loss plan of Sierra & Lucasarts classics), it’s exhausting to disclaim the significance of the collection, even when its ending with the clumsy winding down of Uru On-line wasn’t the epilogue it deserved. Whereas Doom was at all times my playground of alternative, the collection outlined video games for a lot of by means of the 90s, and did its half to get individuals to hook CD drives as much as their PCs, too.

Myst III: Exile and Myst IV: Revelation are out now on GOG, for £10.69/$15 every. The rest of the collection has additionally been bundled up cheap, discounted to £14.35.