Myst III: Exile

Initially fun, and the true puzzles are engaging, if often easy. But anticipate frustration when you're trying to find a hidden path in a chaotic, visually muddy, and often inscrutable landscape. Plan on having to stop and look in a full 360 + vertical on each and every step of each and every featureless hallway-- all of which take 10-15 agonizing clicks to get through every time you go back and forth through them. Exactly one thing in the game requires you to click and drag without introducing the concept or using it again. Exactly one thing requires you to drag inventory items onto something-- without introducing the concept or using it again. How you're meant to know to do those things, I don't know. Cyan may as well have made you push the 'K' key without warning or reason. Several times I found myself lost because, despite almost nothing in the environment being interactable, some random and unremarkable trash is. As others have pointed out, the acting from the villain is great, even if his dialogue is a little awkwardly molded to fit an 'audio log' format that doesn't make a lot of sense. But that's not really enough alone. In the end, after finishing the surprisingly sho…

Few game endings have left as much of an impact on me as this one. Game's stellar overall too. A real joy to "solve". :^)

Utterly fails to capture the magic of its predecessors. It's filled with puzzles for puzzles sake that make no sense in the context of the world. It's annoying to play, and the chirping sounds of the animated creatures are annoying to listen repeatedly. I didn't care enough about the story to finish it. Play Obduction instead.

if you like solving puzzles and riddles, this is the must have game to play.

This is a fun continuation of the the story Myst and Riven started.

Im still confused by it, ,