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Atrus needs the Stranger's help to free his wife, Catherine (Sheila Goold voice by Rengin Altay), who is held hostage in her home Age of Riven, which is slowly collapsing.

Atrus knows the ancient art of creating 'linking books', specially written books that serve as portals to other worlds known as 'Ages'. The player assumes the role of the Stranger, the protagonist of the first game and friend of Atrus ( Rand Miller). Riven 's story continues where Myst and its companion novel, The Book of Atrus, left off. To solve the game, players must consider the purpose and physical principles of these artifacts as well as their role in the fictional culture. The volcanic landscape depicted, with its steep cliffs and crater lakes, is bestrewn with mechanical, Victorian-style artifacts such as elevators, pipes, levers and roller coaster-like transports. Much of it consists of solving puzzles to access new areas of the islands, though players are also able to explore without fulfilling objectives. Whereas in Myst the objective of the game is to travel to different Ages to solve puzzles before returning to a 'hub Age', Riven 's gameplay takes place on the five islands of the Age of Riven. Riven has more complex and numerous puzzles than its forerunner and is set in a larger virtual world for players to explore.

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Like Myst, Riven has an optional method of navigation known as Zip Mode, which allows players to skip to areas already explored, but may cause them to miss important clues. Such items can then be examined at any time, and either reveal clues to puzzles or provide information on the game's setting and story. The cursor also changes in context to show when players can drag or toggle switches, or when certain items can be picked up and carried. For instance, if the player positions the cursor hand near the side of the screen, it may show a pointing finger, indicating that clicking will turn the view in that direction. The cursor changes in appearance, depending on its position on the screen and what it is hovering over, to show what effect clicking will have. To navigate the world, the player simply clicks in the direction they want to walk or turn. By operating mechanical contraptions and deciphering codes and symbols discovered in the surroundings, the vaguely explained goal can eventually be reached.

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The player explores immersive environments depicted through a large series of computer generated stills using mouse clicks for movement or to manipulate objects within reach. Like its predecessor, Riven is a point and click adventure game played from a first-person perspective. The next entry in the Myst series, Myst III: Exile, was developed by Presto Studios and published by Ubisoft.ДЄ screenshot of Riven, showing the prison island where the non-player character Catherine is held captive. Rand stayed at Cyan and continued to work on Myst-related products including The Myst Reader and the real-time rendered game Uru: Ages Beyond Myst.

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After the game's release, Robyn Miller left Cyan to form his own development studio, ending the professional partnership of the two brothers. The best-selling game of 1997, Riven sold 1.5В million copies in one year. Critics positively noted the puzzles and immersive experience of the gameplay, though publications such as Edge felt that the nature of point-and-click gameplay limited the title heavily. Riven was praised by reviewers, with the magazine Salon proclaiming that the game approaches the level of art. Broderbund employed a US$10В million advertising campaign to publicize the game's release. In an effort to create a visual style distinct from that of Myst, director Robyn Miller and his brother, producer Rand Miller recruited former Aladdin production designer Richard Vander Wende as a co-director. Unlike Myst, which took place on several worlds known as Ages linked together by special books, Riven takes place almost entirely on the Age of Riven, a world slowly falling apart due to Gehn's destructive rule.Дevelopment of Riven began soon after Myst became a success, and spanned more than three years. Having been rescued from the efforts of his sons, the main non-player protagonist Atrus enlists the help of the player character to free his wife from his power-hungry father, Gehn. The story of Riven is set immediately after the events of Myst.

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In addition to the PC versions, Riven has been ported to several other platforms. Riven was distributed on five compact discs and released on October 31, 1997, in North America it was later released on a single DVD-ROM on August 17, 1998, with improved audio and a fourteen-minute 'making-of' video.

Developed by Cyan Worlds, it was initially published by Red Orb Entertainment, a division of Broderbund. It is the sequel to Myst and second in the Myst series of games.