Riven

Myst
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

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 forums

MYSTAges - A wiki for the series

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com		Updated for compatibility with modern systems.
Steam		Doesn't run on Windows XP. Pre-packaged with ScummVM.^[2] Does not require the Steam client to run.

A demo is available from ScummVM.

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

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

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.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		The only available resolution is 640x480.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		FMVs capped at 30fps.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese				Retail only.^[3]
Russian				Unofficial translation for CD-version and DVD-version also available.
Spanish

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	5

Executable	PPC	16-bit	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows					64-bit requires 64-bit build of ScummVM.
macOS (OS X)					^[4]
Mac OS (Classic)

	Middleware	Notes
Cutscenes	QuickTime

↑ ^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).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/63610/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (63610) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.