Despite being ported to seemingly everything, Myst has never graced the Xbox ecosystem... until now. After all these years, the classic puzzle adventure game is making its way to Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S on August 26. Oh, and it will be included day one with Xbox Game Pass when it launches too!
For those unversed in Myst, it's a classic first-person puzzle game from 1993 set on an island with the same titular name. It serves as a unique adventure that provides no context, no direction and no obvious path forward, as you work to solve its puzzles and piece together the 'myst-ery'.
Xbox owners will get a "newly re-imagined" version of the game that has been rebuilt from the ground up, complete with different language options, new accessibility features, in-game photo captions to make mental notes and increased resolution (partly thanks to AMD Fidelity FX Super Resolution) to crank the graphical quality up. Xbox Series X players can take advantage of a smooth 4K/60fps, whilst Xbox Series S owners will see 1440p/60fps.
"We rebuilt Myst from the ground up to look stunning and perform amazingly on a variety of gaming systems. One of the technical features we’ve used to achieve this is AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution. This allows us to crank the graphics quality much higher than we typically would be able to."
It's great that the game is finally making its way over to Xbox, as it's a true classic that we've been missing out on all these years. Along with Myst, the remainder of this month's Xbox Game Pass titles include other day one launches such as Psychonauts 2, Twelve Minutes and Recompile. It's a busy month, and we can't wait to get stuck in!
Journey to Myst Island and other stunning, long dormant locations—called “Ages”—and begin to unravel the mystery you have been thrust into. As you learn what happened on the island, you will find that you are playing a key role in an epic story whose ending has not yet been written. Explore deeper connections in these stunning and surreal Ages, uncover a story of ruthless family betrayal, and make choices that will affect both you, and the world of Myst itself.
Excited to see Myst arrive on Xbox? Let us know in the comments below.
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I remember being blown away by the visuals in this way back when it came out. Looking forward to seeing it again.
August is starting to feel like Christmas
Nice!
Will it have achievements, @flurbdurb?
YES!!!!! Point and Click Adventure is my favorite genre (long live King's Quest!) and Myst is one of the finest!!
I had this on Sega Saturn. Looking forward to playing it again
Wow, that's quite a cool blast from the past! The game is very small and very flawed, but I admit it would be amazing to see it again.
Riven, however, was far bigger and better...I'd love to see that!
I remember playing the Original in 1993 when it came out so many times. Love this game and can't wait to play it next week on the Series X and Gamepass!!!
This would be a great title to show to / play with the kids one rainy afternoon.
@Fiendish-Beaver There’s no list yet, but I can’t imagine why there wouldn’t be!
I thought the game took place in 1993 lol, not actually released back then. Looks nice though.
I somewhere have the original Windows 95 CD print of this that had a glitch that would freeze/crash the game in the elevator in the steam/gear Age. Broderbund, the publisher at the time, had to mail replacement discs, because patches were not a thing yet!
@Cherip-the-Ripper Fun fact, Myst is the reason the CD-ROM drive was widely adopted by PCs in the 90s. Before Myst, floppies were more than enough!
@GunValkyrie There were a few Myst games. Myst 2 was called Riven (it was amazing!), Myst 3 was developed by Presto (from the Journey series). It was pretty good, but felt very different. It featured Brad Dourif (Lord of the Rings, Grima Wormtongue) as the antagonist. Myst 4 was kind of a return to form but felt much different with a 3D camera. Then finally Uru, was kind of a spinoff, intended to be an MMO puzzle game before that failed horribly and was repackaged as a stand-alone game. It was actually pretty good but the sales disaster killed Cyan.
another day one buy Xbox keep cranking out the blockbusters. and I'll keep throwing my money at you
@NEStalgia thanks for the random fact! Wasn't around for floppies so that's not something I could have possibly known, was this a 'big' game at release? Also another question, as patches weren't a thing back then does that mean every publisher/dev had to resend disc/floppies when a game was broke? I thought games in the old ages were thoroughly tested to prevent such 'fictional' situations.
@adamfother1 that is what I played it on.
@NEStalgia it was I very good game.
@Cherip-the-Ripper In the early PC gaming (or really, Mac first) it was THE game! Of course it was a slideshow of still renders and quick time video inserted for moving parts. Not a 3d camera like this.
And yep, they had to send replacements in the mail back then. Games were heavily tested to prevent that, it was costly, but from time to time it was necessary. And this was a game breaking bug, you couldn't get past that elevator.
Ooh. This is a game that was about when I was a kid, and still has a cult following, but I've never played. Interested to see how it holds up.
@Shigurui i was 11 when this came out me and my friends spent a whole weekend infront of the pc playing this game, then we had a power outage before we could beat it and never went back for some reason.....
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