Riven (iPhone version)
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | $3.99 | Cyan Worlds, Inc | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
(Note: There is also now an enhanced version of Riven made specifically for the iPad.)
"Awesome" - 5 stars - by Jesse39
"Love it!" - 5 stars - by Wiredpup
"Absolutely excellent!" - 5 stars - by lmiller510
"finally" - 5 stars - by Sephiroth726
"Brilliant - almost art" - 5 stars - by Dlb362
"OMG FINALLY!!!!!!!" - 5 stars - by Bookie290
"Fantastic! Amazing!" - 5 stars - by 159635741
"The most fascinating experience. Pure genius" - 5 stars - by Rafemago
"Wonderful Immersion" - 5 stars - by TW
"Just as good as I remembered" - 5 stars - by Diggler79
"Yeeeeees!!" - 5 stars - by Mellzer
"Excellent!!!!" - 5 stars - by Japleno
"Amazing" - 5 stars - by Plumma88
"I absolutely love this game!" - 5 stars - by Doctorwhoisawesome
"Awesome!" - 5 stars - by Simoncat
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Taking up where Myst left off, Riven set an amazing new standard for design, aesthetics, and immersion in gaming. Remember Atrus’ trap book, the Moiety intervention, the mag-lev ride, the Jungle village, Catherine’s prison, Gehn’s Age, the Wahrk throne? Now the entire Riven adventure can be experienced from wherever you are.
This is the original Riven - with sights and sounds that have been remastered and meticulously re-assembled for a remarkable experience on your iPhone or iPod touch. Everything that you remember from the original Riven in an intimate new format where every aspect is explored with a simple touch or swipe.
Features:
- All the original Ages & gameplay
- High quality images
- Full music & sound effects
- Full screen movies & animations
- Auto-save and multitasking
- "Bookmark" system to save & restore progress
- Swipe to turn
- Game Center achievement support
- Zoom in anywhere for more detail
- New! - “Hot Spot” hints
- Integrated Hint Guide
- For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad (in Compatibility 2X mode)
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NOTES
Riven for iOS is a very large application. We’ve managed to optimized Riven from its original DVD size to a little over a gigabyte, so please be patient - download times can be longer.
Because of the way iOS installs apps, you will need to have more than a gigabyte of free space to install Riven. Once it's installed you can use the extra space again.
Reviews
Worth the price
drdivine33
A great app for what it costs. I'm not sure it's entirely playable at iPhone scale, though - I'm doing a lot of squinting and occasionally miss things I wouldn't on a normal size screen. iPad version probably a lot better on that score, obviously. Still, great fun and lots of serene challenges - a great value for the money.
Disappointed
Youreaskyscraper
I loved this game but I wish the video and images were of a higher resolution. I know this was made a while ago but you'd think shrinking it down to the size of an iPhone would look nicer.
Won't download on iPad
Nycsand
Got this as a gift. It won't download. I see there is an iPad version but don't want to buy it again, :-(
Screenshots are NOT representative.
Somnambulated
Puzzles are blurry, zoomed-in parts of the same photo. Hard to make out any detail, and on a 5s, ridiculous. Transitions are choppy, jerky, and change hues in a jarring fashion. Remarkably poor port of the original game.
Bring on the sequels!!
susan hendrie-marais
This is so great!!! But please, Ubisoft and Cyan - GET MYST 3 AND MYST 4 AND MYST 5 up here now!!!
Great Game, incomplete video content
difference clouds
In my opinion, this is one of the greatest games ever made! And here we have a fully functional version for the iOS, which is more than can be said for Mac OS X. The touch controls are minimal and functional. Only a few hotspots in the game are almost too small to find, even with previous knowledge of the game, for which a helpful hotspot highlighting feature has been added. Sadly, however, some of the original QuickTime video content in various parts of the game seems to be missing, most notably the oh-so-cool animations for the topographical grid puzzle. They have simply been omitted! Whether this is for space constrains (lame) or interface constraints (they could have figured this out), I couldn’t say, but it definitely threw a wrench in my experience just a little. Other videos seem more compressed than in the original game, though this might be an idealistic memory at work. Perhaps they have fixed this in the iPad version, I don’t know. In any case, this is a great game, and one of the only legitimate ways to play it currently, so get it!
Truly an adventure
Tyto12
Well, I just finished playing Riven through for the first time in two years. The melancholy of reaching the end of a good story is settling in, and I may just have to play it through once more to stave it off. These games are so creative and rich. There are hardly any interactions with characters, yet it's all still so alive. You really do feel like you're there, running around and exploring the islands yourself. Maybe I'll play Myst first, and then Riven- back to back? I don't have a problem. I can stop anytime I want.
