Riven (1997)
Fair · Narrative · 2010
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $5.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX 9.0c compatible or better, 7.5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Released in 1997 as the original sequel to Myst, one of the best-selling puzzle adventure games of all time. Prepare to enter a world "torn asunder" by timeless, unresolved conflicts -- a world of incomparable beauty, intrigue, and betrayal.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Narrative game (about 5 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.19. That was February 2016. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 57 in the 14 years tracked, about 12 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Myst: Masterpiece Edition ($5.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats realMyst: Masterpiece Edition ($17.99, scores 56).
This site sampled 345 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 185 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, which is the one that means it just works.
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 23:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Riven (1997) scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 5 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/63610/riven-1997Reviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 5, price as of Oct 1.
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