Riven

Adventure
3.9
207 ratings 115 reviews
release date
2024
June 25
game modes
• Singleplayer
player modes
• Standing • Sitting • Roomscale
compatibility
• Quest 2 • Quest 3/3S
storage 8.5 GB
Store Page
$23.99 ended May 27
$34.99

Travel to Riven, a beautiful and mysterious world on the verge of collapse. Explore this mysterious place, solve its puzzles, reveal its mysteries, make a daring rescue, and escape.

VISIT A MYSTERIOUS WORLD

Riven takes you on a journey through dense jungles, awe-inspiring caverns, and monolithic structures. Explore a world bent to the whims of a man who sees himself as a god and where every corner will immerse you in an otherworldly adventure.

IMMERSE YOURSELF IN A SURREAL LANDSCAPE

Challenge Riven’s cunning puzzles, deftly woven throughout its narrative. The environment of Riven will reveal the story of this world as you make meaning from seemingly disparate bits of information and learn everything you need to know about this world.

UNRAVEL RIVEN’S SECRETS

Who are the mysterious island dwellers you encounter during your exploration? What purpose does the giant golden dome serve? Why is this world on the verge of collapse? Play Riven and discover the answers to these mysteries- and more.

ABOUT THIS REMAKE

Created by the legendary indie developer Cyan Worlds and based on the smash-hit original released in 1997, Riven has been lovingly revisited by its key original visionaries to expand the epic narrative of the Myst universe.

This brand-new, re-imagined, and expanded version of Riven offers a deeper story, new captivating visuals, and a journey that stays true to the original release while also expanding on Riven’s breathtaking world.

comfort Comfortable
age rating10+ Everyone
websitecyan.com
developerCyan Worlds, Inc.
publisherCyan Worlds, Inc.
connectionInternet not required
app version1.7.4
languagesEnglish ∙ Chinese ∙ French ∙ German ∙ Italian ∙ Japanese ∙ Korean ∙ Polish ∙ Portuguese ∙ Russian ∙ Spanish

Reviews 115

DJDeis5 days ago

Love this game!

I absolutely love this game! I got stuck midway and have been waiting for a fix, i just saw they have a patch so ima going to reinstall and patch and go again!

Nanowaldo12 days ago

Wanted to love this game

I mean, this is Riven by Cyan. Legendary series by legendary dev team. So after playing Myst, this was a buy without second thoughts. Oh boy, I was wrong. To be fair, this is on Quest 2. I know, the device is ancient, but this is all I have and if a game is released for Quest 2, the compromises should still be tolerable. But the frame rate stutters are everywhere, even in places without much details like tunnels, polygons popping in and out of existence and the textures shifting in quality only a few feet in front of you. Myst and other comparable games showed how to handle this differently. Are the sceneries so much more detailed here?

And then there are the bugs. Getting stuck with your head in the black void without knowing why, at some point even losing continuous movement completely and needing to restart the game. Teleport usage instead is wonky. Elevators disappearing completely, the player height sometimes shifting (I was continuously shrinking and at some point tilted by 20 degrees). Even comfort settings do not appear to do what the explanation says (window tinting during transit?). Objects or water misplaced in depth or height position. In sum, often breaking immersion.

All in all, and sorry if this may sound offensive, but this feels like compared to Myst, implementation was rushed or maybe Quest 3-focused only. At least testing feels incomplete. Of course, I am aware that it is hard to build a profitable business from sales in VR and therefore compromises need to be made.

In the end, would I have bought Riven knowing this? Maybe still yes. Should you buy it? I do not know. If unsure, wait for a sale. The game by itself was and is fantastic (but hard and nothing as a casual experience). Would I buy Exile if it would ever come out? I do not know.

Chuck41 days ago

Thoroughly enjoyed

Played all the Myst games yeeeears ago and loved them. It was amazing to play them in VR and I was hooked.

A few glitches here and there but nothing that detracted from the experience significantly. Loved it!

15 days ago

Hello there, thank you for your review! We encourage you to check out our patch release 1.7.4 that contains many fixes and feature updates. The patch was released today. Thank you for playing Riven!

Maxwellh47 days ago
28

Short of what it could have been.

As a long time cyan worlds fan way back. I wanted this new revision of the classic to be great. This was the first game I played from them and it was the catalyst for my obsession with the must series of games and books. However this version of it seems to miss the mark entirely on a technical stand point. The downgrade is more drastic then I think it should have been and even with the drastic downgrade it still has a myriad of bugs, frame rate hitches and texture issues, the game is a chore to even play. This seems to be an issue more or less of continued support for the game as it has not had a patch for almost 9 months from its release. Cyan, you’re better than this.

15 days ago

Hello there, we encourage you to check out our patch release 1.7.4 that contains many fixes and feature updates. The patch was released today. Unfortunately, when it comes to graphical fidelity, the Quest version of Riven had does indeed have lower fidelity than the PC VR version of the game. Thank you for playing Riven!

NadavY56 days ago
1

Can not move. A lot of bugs

I think I should get a refund or a PC version to try again

15 days ago

Hello, please email support@cyan.com to help with your issue -- we also released an update today to the game that may address the issue you encountered. If you still wish to request a refund, you can do so by navigating to your purchase history in the Meta app or on the Meta website and select Riven as the game you wish to return.

Matthew57 days ago
3

Awesome

This is brilliant, a little bit of patience is required for occasional loading of islands and the pods but this is one of the best games on quest 3. My head is hurting but that’s good because I’m totally immersed in this world of riven. It’s exploration and problem solving across the various islands, obviously if you have played this before that is going to help but it doesn’t take anything away from experiencing this in VR which is brilliant! Some things have changed like the layout and there are some new things to solve. The omission of humans as the characters is okay because the computer ones are so life like which is a welcome surprise. Cyan have done an excellent job
And hopefully we shall see the other myst games on the quest in the future?

15 days ago

Thank you for your kind review!

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