Hes mad because Sirrus and Achenar, Atrus and Catherines sons, destroyed his home, and he wants revenge.īut is this villain really as bad as he sounds? This much we can tell you: When Myst III begins, Atrus and Catherine, the husband and wife who were rescued in the first two games, have made contact with the survivors of the once-mighty Dni civilization (who wrote all those books that link the ages in the Myst games) and are working with them to rebuild their homes.īut a mysterious villain hes so shrouded in mystery that even his name is a secret who has ties with Atrus past has resurfaced with plans to derail the Dni rebuilding process. The secrecy surrounding the project has been tight. Presto Studios, and its publisher, Ubi Soft, would divulge before its release. Of course, thats based on what little information the games developer, It looks that beautiful, and the story is that deep and complex.
But this Kickstarter brings it all together for a whole new generation, with some real-world treats thrown in for the longtime fans.If that sounds like the perfect game for you, then you might want to buy some tea in bulk when you purchase Myst III: Exile. That’s a bit of a drag, given that the series started its life on the Mac - but Cyan says getting everything running on the Mac would take resources they “just don’t have.” Cyan notes that while they’ll continue to sell the updated games once the Kickstarter is over, the special box set is a Kickstarter-only deal.Īs arstechnica points out, much of the Myst series is already available for Windows 10 - only Myst III and IV had never been updated for compatibility, as the rights were held by a different publisher. The bad news: most of the games won’t work on MacOS.
They’ve updated the games to work on “modern systems, but there’s a bit of a good news/bad news situation there.
(For the unfamiliar: in the Myst universe, “Linking books” transport those that touch the book to a far-off destination.) Oh, and they built a friggin’ Linking book, complete with a 800×480 LCD screen that plays video fly-throughs of the game’s environments when the book is opened. Tiers above that include a bunch of real-world goodies, from a recreation of Gehn’s in-game pen/inkwell to original, hand-drawn concept art. $49 gets you digital copies of each game, while $99 gets you DVD copies in a box built to look like a Myst book.