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For those that love these kind of games, the modern day interpretation is (the creator of Braid) Jonathan Blow's Witness.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/210970/The_Witness/

That said, I really wish the creators remake these games for the mobile. These kind of puzzle games dont have any of the FPS requirements that today's mobile phones cant handle. The beautiful scenes that Myst was well known for can easily be rendered on a 4 year old phone as well.

But most importantly, touch and gyroscope opens up degrees of freedom that was previously impossible to conceive. Imagine an AR like Myst.

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> Imagine an AR like Myst.

I suggested to one of the Niantic developers (Ingress, Pokemon Go) that they could make interesting "historical fiction tours" that people would likely pay for. Basically have the customer travel around a city to important places and solve a "mystery" associated with some historical event. You could use some of the Ingress mechanics where you would "pick up" a clue at a location that was a playable video file. That would lead you to the next clue. You could "uncover" secret locations by locating yourself relative to landmarks and entering a sequence, etc.

Just to iterate on your comment, while The Witness is one of my favorite games and very close in spirit to the Myst, the closet game after many many years I was able to find is Quern:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/512790/Quern__Undying_Thou...

If you like Myst, give it a try, you want be disappointed.

oh wow - thanks for this.

And its Linux supported too!!!

Myst and Riven are available on iOS from Cyan. I haven't played those versions and so can't speak to the quality, but they're there.

They are also available for Android (via Noodlecake Studios)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noodlecake...

My understanding was that The Witness doesn't really have a plot. Was I mistaken?

One of the unusually good things about Riven is how well integrated and justified every puzzle was into the world; the storyline and environment genuinely didn't just feel like an excuse for the game to throw puzzles at you. Sometimes I play games which are puzzles for puzzles sake (I'm fond of DROD), but it's a very different thing.

> Imagine an AR like Myst.

Cyan's most recent, Obduction, has VR support.

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