Myst
Skip · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 44, under the fair line, at $34.99.
- Length
- 5.5h
- Value
- $6.36/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti / AMD Radeon RX 570 or greater, 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
April 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $13.99. Its cuts run 35 percent off as a rule. There have been 32 in the 5 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 30 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Riven ($34.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Obduction ($29.99, scores 43).
78 from critics against 89 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
8 of the 530 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 278 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
51% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
12 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 01:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Wonderful remake of the original Myst game. Much better graphics and the puzzles while true to the original are refined to play better and are much more fun I think. Overall much better and worth every penny,
Important to keep in mind this is a remake of a game that was innovative in the 90s, when the first version was nearly impossible to make. 30 years later, there's Unreal Engine, VR, big screens and beautiful shaders. I don't think it is fair to use modern standards to evaluate Myst: Cyan decided to keep the remake faithful to the original game, with very few updates. There's value in this decision, which is preserve...
A puzzle game. It's probably better with nostalgia if you have played the original 1993, but without playing the original, this one feels extremely old and clunky. Mostly, it's due to constant movement/backtracking that was required to find the solution, a lot of walking, and not enough solving. Some of the puzzles were simply not impressive and required only movement (move to point A, see the problem, move to point...
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Cite this score
Myst scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1255560/mystReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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