# Recommend me a Myst clone **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 31, 2002, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-myst-clone/145846 "2002-12-31T08:55:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-myst-clone/145846/21 "2003-01-02T07:08:30Z")
Thanks guys. A lot of the games you’re recommending are no longer available anywhere, not even second hand. So that’s not as much as use as I wish it was. I hated all the Sierra games I’ve tried to play. The ease of being killed when you turn a corner was just too annoying, and boy are they ever slow! I don’t have a console of any sort, and never will - not interested in games enough to get one, and they are somewhat lacking in the adventure department, unless you count Final Fantasy, which I don’t. While looking up many of the recommendations here, I saw System Shock 2 on a review site. I played the demo version of System Shock 1 once and loved it. I wonder if I should seek out this sequel…? I know it was very popular. It has a kind of adventurey/FPS combination, I think. However, I shall look for the Lighthouse, and Schism, and Syberia games, and await patiently for LucasArts sequels. Thanks for all your help! ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-myst-clone/145846/22 "2003-01-02T13:54:55Z")
Syberia is available in a demo version; I suggest you download it and take a look at it. I did, after reading all the reviews about it, and was extremely disappointed. Yes, the graphics are beautiful. But it’s schlock full of the one thing I always, always, always hated about these types of games - idiotic plot schemes that leave me wanting. IE, I’m in my hotel. Walking to my room, I notice several other doors. I try to open one - I get a message “I don’t really want to go in there right now.” I try to do something else, say, use my cell phone. I get a message “I don’t really feel like doing that right now.” I try to open my suitcase “I don’t want to unpack right now.” ARRRGGGHHH! Take a LITTLE BLOODY TIME and WORK OUT the plot line instead of just coming up with inane “I don’t want to do that right now” messages. WTF? Why can’t I OPEN MY SUITCASE whenever I want? I realize that it might not be relevant to the plot line at the moment, but come on! The other thing I hate about that kind of stuff is that it’s either SO BLOODY OBVIOUS when you CAN do something that it’s a spoiler (ie, Wow, I can NOW OPEN THE SUITCASE! I guess SOMETHING BIG is about to happen!), or I forget all about doing it and when I’m supposed to say, open the suitcase, I forget I even HAVE a suitcase and spend hours running around trying to do whatever it is that I could easily do if I’d OPEN THE AFOREMENTIONED UNOPENABLE SUITCASE. OK, I’ll shut up now. Unlike le Garcon de Guano, I _do_ prefer D&D type of games, so maybe I’m not qualified to even comment. I lost interest in Myst in about 2 hours, same with Riven. Give me hack and slash any day. ---
**Author:** ![MSU\_1978](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@MSU\_1978](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MSU_1978)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-myst-clone/145846/23 "2003-01-02T14:28:21Z")
Try Riddle of the Sphinx. I haven’t completed it yet, but the perspective is quite similar to Myst. I haven’t completed Exile yet, either and that is one sweet game. ---
**Author:** ![Aglet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aca169/32.png) [@Aglet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aglet)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-myst-clone/145846/24 "2003-01-02T16:46:43Z")
**From Drastic:** > [@](#): > > It’d probably be really tricky getting it to run on modern machines (it was twitchy enough on then-current old ones) but “The Seventh Guest” struck me as being similar to Myst–atmospheric surroundings, no reflexes involved; but the puzzles are simply logic puzzles, rather than being tied to the environment in any strong way. I just got a new computer and am unable to run T7G or 11th Hour—the latter I had never even taken out of the box until 2 days ago :(. I got my old computer in 1994 (stop laughing at me) and have just been upgrading in spurts until last week when I went for what I consider the motherload. I loved T7G, never having gotten through it because I just never took the time, but that kind of puzzle-solving appeals to me. I guess I can throw those two out and try some of the new (to me) games suggested here. Thanks for the thread, **GuanoLad** , and thanks for all the suggestions. I was going to start a thread about suggestions for PC games similar to T7G, and now I don’t have to. ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-myst-clone/145846/25 "2003-01-02T21:33:54Z")
I’m a bit late, but you can’t have one of these threads without Grim Fandago being mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![deborak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@deborak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deborak)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-myst-clone/145846/26 "2003-01-03T00:37:52Z")
Speaking of adventure games - does anybody know if The Journeyman Project: Turbo (the re-release of the first in the series) will even work on a more advanced computer? I enjoyed the third installment (Legacy of Time) and just ordered the 2nd (Buried in Time). I really wanted to go back to the first one, but I see conflicting information about whether it will work on later computers (I’m running Win Me). I’m not worried about shelling out 5 bucks on EBay for a wasted game; I am, however, worried about somehow breaking my computer! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-myst-clone/145846.md?page=1)