
Riven (Legacy) for iPadOS 12+
The Sequel to Myst
Cyan Worlds
Designed for iPad
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- £5.99
iPad Screenshots
Description
"Riven: The Sequel to Myst" - made especially for iPad! The epic island Age of Riven with all of its rich, meticulous attention to detail, now closer than ever.
Taking up where Myst left off, Riven set an amazing new standard for design, aesthetics, and immersion in gaming. Remember Atrus’ trap book, the Moiety intervention, the mag-lev ride, the Jungle village, Catherine’s prison, Gehn’s Age, the Wahrk throne? Now the entire Riven adventure can be experienced from wherever you are.
This is the original Riven - with sights and sounds that have been remastered and meticulously re-assembled for a remarkable experience on your iPad. Everything that you remember from the original Riven in an intimate way to play this classic game with a simple touch or swipe.
Features:
- All the original Ages & gameplay
- Highest quality images
- Improved music & sound effects
- Updated movies & animations
- Auto-save
- "Bookmark" system to save & restore progress
- Swipe to turn
- Game Center achievement support
- “Hot Spot” hints
- Integrated Hint Guide
What’s New
Version 1.7.0
We made a few improvements:
- Fixed getting stuck on GameCenter screen
- Added swipe gestures to journals (left and right to turn page and up or down to put journal back)
- Audio object improvements
- Added iOS 16 compatibility
Ratings and Reviews
True to the original
A good port, provided you can bare the graphics. Be aware that this game is almost two decades old and was designed for very old computers which, at the time, could not handle 'HD' graphics, and cyan have already said that the assets cannot be re-rendered in high definition. You'd expect that from an old game.
That said, there are a few niggling issues which were annoying, such as videos not lining up perfectly with the static backgrounds, random glitchy green lines around some videos and every video being rendered at much lower fps than the original (why??).
The controls translated to a touch screen, though. This is how riven is meant to be played!
Had hoped for iPad optimised version, but it is very pixelated
This is still the same great game as it always was, but I had hoped that they had remastered it so the movies wouldn't be as pixelated and images wouldn't be as downsampled / low resolution.
I know this was originally created in the stone ages of computing, but assuming they still have the original assets and 3D models stored somewhere, they could have rerendered everything at a much higher resolution, and with better video codecs.
Anyway, still a great game. I never finished it on the PC back in the days, so this is my chance.
Simply stunning
What a fantastic game. I played this 20 years ago and it still as accessible on the ipad as it was back on the PC. (If not more, I can play comfortably in a coffee shop). Whoever claims the graphics aren't good enough, what were they expecting? Some sort of upgrade. This world still looks beautiful frame by frame. Patience still needed to explore and find everything and the puzzle connections are still not beaten in modern games. $4 well spent, I am going to get my daughter to play (and love) this when she is older.
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Information
- Provider
- Cyan Worlds, Inc
- Size
- 2 GB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2012 by Cyan Worlds. All rights reserved.
- Price
- £5.99
Supports
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Game Center
Challenge friends and check leaderboards and achievements.
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.