Firmament

The best Cyan game since Riven. Beautiful scenes that make you want to just stop and enjoy the scenery. Fascinating story with a terrific ending. Worst end-of-game music ever.

The gen AI is extremely disappointing, the narrative is sparse and generic, the art direction is great and the puzzles are pretty good. But. Here's what truly frustrates me. This game borrows heavily from a side mission in Uru that takes a few hours to play call Path of the shell. It's an excellent experience and it's free (go and play it). Firmament rips out Shell's main puzzle and displays it here, but doesn't understand what makes Path of the Shell work as an experience. It fails to do what magicians might call 'The Pledge'. Path of the Shell sets up it's story, sets up it's themes, and then delights you in its reveal. Firmament gives you the reveal, but has no narrative setup to it. They've repainted a great puzzle and stripped it of it's context for a cheap thrill. That disappoints me more than the use of gen AI.

Its great in VR but also very playable in 2D as well.

One of the most frustrating games I've ever played. Some of the puzzles are not very intuitive, and there are no hints or directions. Had to use someone else's walkthrough to finish it. 10/10, loved it and hated it. will never play it again (spoiler - you're playing as the bad guy, and you don't find out until the VERY END)

devastatingly good...i actually cried after the ending ...well done cyan well done ,,,

A classic Myst-style game with complicated but solvable puzzles. Plenty of places to explore, and every puzzle solution gives you more to explore. As complex as it is, it seems designed so that you can't undo anything you needed to move further, and you can't get yourself in a situation you can't get out of. Very smooth operation on a MacBook Air M5.