This narrative focus on complex communities makes the emptiness you find when you arrive more dissonant, but also more haunting. Many of the info dumps are about how these different cultures learned to coexist, how they learned to communicate, the different ways of thinking and types of technology they brought to each other. Obduction’s worlds, by contrast, before coming into contact existed independently of each other, having their own species and cultures. And each world was cordoned off from the next, with only select outsiders traveling between them. Myst and Riven were very interested in how a world was built, how it fits together, how it was first imagined and then colonized by its writer.
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The worldbuilding is also a bit more… anthropological this time, where the Myst series felt architectural. What if linking books were puzzle mechanics? What if where a book is left when you link through were important? What if the membrane separating worlds were a puzzle mechanic? What if Myst, but instead of the worlds being discrete they overlap? What if Myst, but you take some of the surrounding terrain with you when you link to another world, and something from that world goes back to where you were?
I will say, they seem to be leaning into what makes Cyan Cyan. It still all feels very Myst-y, having a central, familiar hub world with a lot of overlapping designs and styles, and mysterious links to stranger worlds with their own rules. And, instead of these worlds being constructed by a magical writer, they’re natural, alien landscapes that have been put in contact for unknown reasons. Instead of finding more books to more worlds, you find more seeds to more worlds. The game’s premise is very “as Myst as you can get while being technically not- Myst.” Instead of stumbling onto a book that transports you to a fantastical world, you are touched by an alien seed that transports you to a fantastical world.
So, naturally, it was the first thing I downloaded on the new machine. I backed it on Kickstarter ages ago, but the Mac build took forever to come out and my computer’s dated specs and the port’s horrendous bugginess made it unplayable. Moreover, Obduction serves as a kind of spiritual sequel to the Myst series. Rand wrote and designed it, and Robyn wrote the music and plays the central NPC.
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Obduction marks the professional reunion of Rand and Robyn Miller, the brothers who founded Cyan and created Myst and Riven. I’m the guy who says, “I can finally play Obduction!”
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Now, maybe you get your first proper gaming PC and think, “Hell yeah, I’m gonna play that new Star Wars game, I’m gonna play Modern Warfare, let’s take this baby out for a spin!!” Hey y’all I got a new laptop, and, for the first time in… ever, I could afford to make it a pretty good gaming PC.
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