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I would check out Quern. Quern is an excellent Myst style game and comes closest to Myst style puzzles. From what I've seen of the "The Witness" is looked to be the same maze puzzle but repeated throughout the game. I loved Johnathan Blow's "Braid" but I passed on the Witness after seeing some gameplay.

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The Witness is a fantastic game, and while all the puzzles are drawing a line on a screen, without getting into spoilers, they have a great deal more variety than you might think.

That said, unlike the magical-realism of Myst and Riven's lived-in locations, the island of The Witness is impressionistic: It's not supposed to feel like a real place, only a kind of 3-d painting filled with relaxing and thought-provoking details, and coincidences to notice. So it might not be your cup of tea.

I agree, Quern was great and much more Myst-like than the Witness.

The Eyes of Ara is another Myst-like I enjoyed.

I'm always looking for more.

I rather enjoyed The Talos Principle, and bought The Witness hoping to love it.

I couldn't get into it. When I ran into a memorization "puzzle" I knew it wasn't the game for me :(

I don't recall the puzzle you're talking about, but there are a massive variety of types of puzzles in the Witness. Was it early on?

I loved Talos Principle also, and I genuinely think the Witness is one of the best games of the last decade. Hopefully you can give it another go :)

IIRC it may be one of the water reflection puzzles. You see the solution reflected in one half of the room, and have to repeat it on a panel in the other half. One of a small handful of puzzles I cheated - my short term memory is horrid.

You should have seen my camera roll on my phone while playing through some areas. It was an incredibly helpful tool for getting through the game.

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