I just finished Firmament, the new game from Cyan, the creators of Myst. It's... just fine! It scratches that Myst-like itch; the realms are gorgeous, it has a lot of puzzles that are grounded in physicality and mostly involve powering or fueling things and turning them on. I was disappointed that there's not really a big turn to the mechanics; you do a thing in each of three realms, collecting three upgrades for your tool along the way, then you do a harder thing in each of the three realms, then you finish the game. Many of Cyan's other games add a fun complication in the second half; I'm thinking of the lovely revelation of how Obduction's worlds are connected. The story in Firmament is fine, but mostly boils down to introducing a mystery in the first hour, letting you solve puzzles for five hours, and then explaining the (not hugely novel) mystery in the last hour. Not Cyan's best work, but not their worst.
The VR was gorgeous but the controls were almost unusable and my rig chugged way too much in complex scenes for it to be playable. That's okay; I'm happy to play in pancake mode.
There's one big issue I have, though: they seem to have made extensive use of AI content generation.
