This review on my website has all the details. I'm often wondering what the next fun indie thing I'll want to get into is, specifically stuff that interests me instead of one of the billions of roguelikes people seem to love latching onto. So I played through almost 30 demos to try to figure that out. Fortunately I found a fair bit of interesting games and ideas and I actually had time to go through a bunch this time.

Dang I wish Lutris was available for Windows, because it allows for you to launch from pretty much every every games library service out there like a games library library. I guess it is open source if someone had the time/money and gumption to port it and rip out all the Linux-only stuff.

Riven is where the Myst franchise really proved what it was all about. If Myst was the prototype, Riven took the idea and expanded it hugely. While each world (or Age as they’re called) in Myst was quite a small self-contained island, Riven featured a much larger interconnected series of islands within its principle Age, making the environment feel much larger and more complex. Many of these were explorable from the beginning and with puzzles able to be solved in any order the player desired, although finishing certain puzzles was needed to progress the story. The remake takes all of this but tweaks and plays with it slightly, moving things around and introducing some new puzzles while removing others.

Review by Gareth Brading