Firmament

This game has beautiful engaging scenery as do all of Cyans games. The puzzles are well thought out and while some people may complain of how much back-and-forth you have to do to solve the puzzles; I am old-school, way back to the original Myst days so I all of that doesn't bother me at all. I think for any Cyan fan, this game should be in your library. My ONLY complaint, which I find is a "trend" in most games today, is that that Cyan decided to go with a depressing, masters/slave story to drive the narrative of the game. Why? We deal with this in real life all the time, and the narrative is much overdone these days. Why do we also have to have that in a game as the driving factor? We play these to ESCAPE real life...

I backed this on kickstarter and finally got around to playing it (when it first launched I couldn't keep it from crashing every 5 minutes so I put it aside for a few years). The game overall is... fine? The puzzles are all very simple, the storytelling is just a single narrator monologuing to you every time you make some slight progress along with a handful of notebooks in game. The vast majority of the story is dumped on you in the last 10 minutes of the game with a pile of notes bigger than you'll find in the rest of the games realms combined and a 5-10 minute monologue from the narrator character. It also feels like when you get to the end that there were supposed to be a ton of story moments earlier in the game that never happened as the dialog acts like you've grown to know and care about characters that have barely been mentioned more than once. I play these types of games for their complex puzzles and slow reveal of a mysterious story... this one had neither really. It's a good foundation for a game but it feels like its missing another year or so of content development.

Amazing adventures other worldly game.. enjoyed thoroughly.

I had just finished the game, and though I had some positive and negative comments about it; generally amounting to 'far more walking without anything of substance than I'd like' and 'puzzles varying from no rhyme in solvability to cakewalks that feel more like chores than puzzles to point & click because where you're supposed to be 'aiming' is night invisible, However, after the credits were rolling, and I was peeking the things that popped-up as I picked-up my phone, a little thing stood out to me. A credit for: 'A.I. Assisted Content' which listed a large amount of in-game assets, INCLUDING Voice-Acting, Imagery, and Writing. Normally, I'd be able to avoid the game, but... if you're here, you're likely on the store page, and at the time or writing... there is no declaration of this. Disgusting.

I'm playing in June and July 2026 (maybe August if I can't figure these puzzles out). I'm using VR - a Quest 3 connected to my desktop PC via Virtual Desktop. I'm ancient as far as video game players go, but I'm relatively new to puzzle games. I used to play the Sierra adventure games in the mid to late 1980s and early 90s, and I was always excited when a new one was released. I had to use a hint guide or call the 1-900 number for most of the games. I remember there being a lot of "moon logic," (you know, like rub cheese grater on satellite dish), and you could easily get soft locked out of finishing the game if you didn't pick up something near the start of the game. I played MYST in 1993. I loved the graphics and the immersion but couldn't figure out one puzzle. Hell, I'm not even sure I knew where the puzzles began. Then I stopped playing puzzle games for over 30 years. Recently, I've become a VR enthusiast and have over 165 games installed that are either native VR or can be modded to work in VR. I love that it's brought new life to my gaming. Among those titles are puzzle games. So I figured why not try puzzle games? I finished Ghost Town and loved it, and Red Matter 1 & …

I finished the game, but only because it was so short. There were only a few genuine "puzzles", most of the game was just operating overly complicated elevators to traverse a mostly empty world. I also had a hard crash to desktop and two times having to load a previous save due to getting stuck outside the level geometry.