Obduction hasn’t exactly set Kickstarter on fire but it has managed to tick up past $50,000 on its first day and, for the moment at least, is climbing with a comfortable consistency. Obduction promises “stunning landscapes, deep storyline, engaging characters, dramatic soundscapes, and challenging yet intuitive puzzles,” as you’d expect, and while the few pieces of concept art currently available have a very obvious Myst-like appearance and the genre has some serious miles on it, a new game in the mold from the studio that started it all is kind of exciting.Ĭyan is seeking $1.1 million in funding, a hefty amount by any measure, but so far it seems to be going pretty well. Thematically, however, it will tread similar ground, as players find themselves abducted by a strange, organic artifact and then dropped into bizarre and fantastic alien worlds. has never duplicated its success, the studio is still around and still doing its thing – that “thing” now being Obduction, a “spiritual successor” that aims to capture the experience of Myst without being bound to its fiction. It’s been 20 years since Myst became one of the biggest videogames of all time and while Cyan, Inc. Cyan Inc., the studio behind Myst and Riven, is seeking Kickstarter support for a new adventure entitled Obduction.

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