“To this day, there are a lot of people who game in very specific indie categories,” Rand adds.
We are now well-placed to look at how the game’s fanbase has been served with graphical puzzle adventures in the 27 years since Myst was released by Cyan. Most of all, Myst attracted a new audience which was drawn to a visually stunning first-person adventure that offered a different playing experience to shooters and sports simulations.īut as Rand points out, now, more than ever, is an ideal time to look at its legacy as gamers have spent the proceeding decades engrossed by a diverse list of titles Myst helped spawn. It helped spark a golden age of CD-ROM home gaming, alongside trailblazing titles, such as The 7th Guest and Star Wars: X-Wing and Rebel Assault. It was one of the first adventure games to dispense with text commands, instead using photorealistic images to give the player the impression that they were viewing the world through their character’s eyes. Retro Gamer readers will be familiar with how Myst’s cerebral gameplay enabled it to became one of the most successful titles ever and how it took nine years for The Sims to overtake its six million sales in 2002. “But we, now as much as ever, are getting people who are saying how much it influenced them.”
“Time passes and things fade,” begins Rand Miller, who is trying to comprehend the legacy of Myst, the game he co-created with his brother Robyn way back in 1993.
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