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Riven

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Riven
Riven cover
Developers
Cyan Worlds
Publishers
Red Orb Entertainment
Engines
Mohawk Engine[1]
Myst 25th Anniversary Update ScummVM[2]
Release dates
Windows October 29, 1997
Mac OS (Classic) October 29, 1997
Windows (ScummVM) September 11, 2018[2]
macOS (OS X) (ScummVM) September 11, 2018[2]
Riven guide on StrategyWiki
Riven on MobyGames
Riven on Wikipedia
Myst 1993
Riven 1997
realMyst 2000
Myst III: Exile 2001
Uru: Ages Beyond Myst 2003
Myst IV: Revelation 2004
Myst V: End of Ages 2005
Myst Online: Uru Live 2007
realMyst: Masterpiece Edition 2014
Myst (2021) 2021
Riven (2024) 2024

Key points

Riven requires QuickTime 2.5 or higher; install from Apple's site if you don't have it already.
Can be run under ScummVM.

General information

Official game site
Official forums
MYSTAges - A wiki for the series
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
Windows
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Updated for compatibility with modern systems.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Does not run on Windows XP.
Pre-packaged with ScummVM.[2]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
A demo is available from ScummVM.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/63610/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\*.rvn[Note 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/63610/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Saves under SAVEGAME folder in game directory.
Steam Cloud
ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Russian
Unofficial translation for CD-version and DVD-version also available.
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 5
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
64-bit requires 64-bit build of ScummVM.
Mac OS (Classic)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Apple QuickTime

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 100 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 75 MB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 5 compatible
Mac OS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7.5
Processor (CPU) PowerPC 90 MHz
System memory (RAM) 9 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 65 MB
Video card (GPU) SVGA display
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.13
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 6.6 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:

References

  1. Mohawk/Games - ScummVM :: Wiki - last accessed on 2019-03-02
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Myst 25th Anniversary Update - last accessed on 2019-09-17