RHEM I SE: The Mysterious Land

I haven't finished it yet but if you like Myst / Riven this is a must play. I intend to play all 4 games. It's not as polished as Myst or Riven but considering this game was made by only one person...

Good puzzles, but navigating the map takes like 85% of your brainpower so be ready to get lost.

Great game. One of the best adventaure games I played. Great puzzles, not too easy, not too furstrating - requires thinking. Graphics and audio is very old style - just the way I like it.

Extremely similar to myst. however there are secrets to find other than the main game. secrets that both give you things for future games, or secrets that require the future games. the puzzles were very fair and interesting. a well thought out game. 10/10

I enjoyed this game more than Myst. The puzzles are tough but fair, and are integrated into the environment unlike a lot of other Myst clones- the solutions are all dotted around the world for you to find. There's almost no story, and your reward for beating a puzzle most of the time is to simply reach a new area with more puzzles. As long as you make notes (everything that looks important is important) you won't need to look anything up. By the time I was done I'd filled 20-30 pages of a notebook with barely-legible doodles and codes, and it was satisfying when something I'd written down several pages ago suddenly clicked and made sense.

This game is not absolutely terrible. But it isn't good. It learned all of the wrong lessons from myst and riven, while missing what made those games magic. Having difficult puzzles doesn't make the game better by itself. Most of the difficulty is that clues for many puzzles are spread widely over a map that is both hard to get oriented around but even when you know how things connect is a chore to navigate around. Even when you have unlocked an area you don't get any unlocked shortcuts you are forced to continue going backwards and forwards around circuitous routes, making sure you close certain paths behind you so that other paths will be open and you won't have to backtrack if you later need to go there. The visuals are not good. where the myst series has had inspiring visuals from the start, rhem has 3 main textures that are everywhere, and are drab and bleak. It adds to the difficulty in working out what is connected to where because everything looks the same. There is no wonder to be found here, just drudgery, often when you work out how a puzzle works you don't get a lightbulb moment, you get a sinking feeling as you realise what you will need to do in order to implement…