In Obduction, the Villeins use a base 4 number system — and you'll have to use it to solve puzzles. To understand it, you have to think about our own numbers for a minute. We use base 10. This means ...

Myst’s spiritual successor Obduction drags its heritage into the modern age with aplomb, though the puzzles aren’t quite as fiendishly hard as Riven’s. It’s unlikely I can be objective about Obduction ...

I often got real, physical headaches while playing Obduction. Towards the end of the game, I’d regularly get completely stuck when trying to solve a puzzle, decide I was missing something vital to its ...

Cyan, the prolific developers behind Myst (1993) and Riven (1997), is giving away Obduction (2016) on the Epic Games Store starting next week. Obduction is Cyan’s first VR-compatible puzzle adventure, ...

The creators of Myst and Riven return with a stunning-looking puzzle game that will test your patience as well as your grey cells. If there’s one thing above all guaranteed to date a video game it’s ...

Cyan has a double dose of news about its Obduction thriller. The game is debuting on the PlayStation 4 today, and the company has cut a deal with Hollywood’s Legendary Pictures to add a backstory to ...

Myst's developer Cyan are currently running about the offices shouting "Money fight!" having just passed the funding target of their Obduction Kickstarter campaign. They now have $1.1 million to throw ...

This story’s been a long time coming. By now you’ve hopefully heard Cyan’s spiritual successor to Myst, its new game Obduction, has been delayed into 2016. If you hadn’t heard, well, now you have.

Myst's spiritual successor offers a lot of the same delights as its 1993 forbear, but is hampered by litany of technical issues. It's a strange thing to think about now, but there was a time when Myst ...