After the Stranger has rescued Atrus, the master of "linking books", from the imprisonment caused by his sons, a new task awaits the hero. Atrus's wife, Catherine, has been taken by Gehn, his own father. Gehn has appointed himself as the one to rule the Age of Riven, and has driven his world to collapse. Now he holds Catherine hostage on Riven, hoping that his son will restore the book link to the Age and free him from there. The Stranger is requested by Atrus to travel to Riven and find a way to rescue Catherine.

Riven is a sequel to Myst, and is very similar to its predecessor in gameplay style, controls, and visual presentation. The game world is presented as a series of computer-generated still screens; the player explores it in a point-and-click fashion. Interaction with the environment is possible only when said environment is highlighted as a "hot spot", and is also performed by simple clicking. Like its predecessor, Riven is heavy on puzzles, which rarely include using inventory items, but usually involve understanding and manipulating the complex environments and machinery of the game world.

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Alternate Titles

"迷霧之島II" -- Chinese spelling (traditional)
"Riven: La Suite De Myst" -- French title
"Riven: Il Seguito Di Myst" -- Italian title
"Riven: A Sequência de Myst" -- Brazilian title
"Myst 2" -- Informal name
"リヴン　ザ　シークェル　トゥー　ミスト" -- Japanese spelling

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	Riven: The Sequel to Myst	Windows	$1.48
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User Reviews

Ahhh Riven. How I long to re-visit thy beautiful cyan sky	Tal Cohen (35)
The most difficult game of the trilogy... But oh, so rewarding!	Dave Schenet (130)	unrated
Myst times 5.....	Chris Martin (1112)
Let's get sucked up by a world so beautiful, it's creepy.	Rensch (193)
A wonderful game that should be in every gamers shelf	Djinn (21)
an amazing game that kept me up at night wondering.	Herschel Hoffman (8)
Belongs in any adventure gamer's permanent library	jo h. (5)	unrated
Perfect	the_needle2.0 (11)

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The Press Says

Quandary	Nov, 1997		100
PC Player (Germany)	Nov, 1997		100
Just Adventure	Aug 21, 2002	A	100
Jeuxvideo.com	Mar 04, 2011	19 out of 20	95
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Jan 18, 1998		90
PC Jeux	Oct, 1997	90 out of 100	90
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Jan, 1998	82 out of 100	82
GameSpot	Nov 03, 1997	7.8 out of 10	78
Gamesmania	1997	65 out of 100	65
PC Games (Germany)	Nov 05, 1997	55 out of 100	55

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Trivia

The soundtrack for this game was composed and performed by Robyn Miller. Also, this soundtrack contains recently recovered d'ni archeological information. Release date is 1998.

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