If you love games that wrap brain-bending puzzles in compelling storylines, Apple Arcade has you covered. Though its launch lineup still lacks a few of the intriguing titles we've been promised down the line, there are still plenty of games to suit fans of tricky brainteasers and twisty mysteries.
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In no particular order, we've rounded up the best (and the rest) of Apple Arcade's launch titles that fit the 'puzzle adventure' category, to help you figure out what you'll want to play first.
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THE BEST
Projection: First Light
- Studio: Blowfish
- Age rating: 9+
- Use a gamepad? Yes
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves gets credit as the first feature-length animated film, but Lotte Reiniger's 1926 The Adventures of Prince Achmed, brought to life with shadow puppets, beat Walt Disney to the punch by more than a decade. Projection: First Light (pictured at the top of this article) feels like a tribute to Reiniger's enchanting film, following a shadow-puppet girl in a shadow-puppet world whose pursuit of a glowing butterfly leads her into a magical adventure.
Projection sets itself apart from other platformers with one clever conceit: You control not only the girl, but a ball of light that follows her around. Any shadows the light casts on her surroundings become solid stepping stones, allowing the girl to surmount the obstacles in her path. Using the light to find clever ways to help the girl — like creating a sudden shadow-bubble beneath her that pops her into the air – proves satisfyingly creative. The solid, responsive controls don't hurt, either.
Each of Projection's various multi-part levels takes place in, and is visually inspired by, one of the many different countries with their own shadow-puppet traditions. And steering the girl with one stick of your gamepad, and the light with the other, feels invigoratingly like starting a conversation between the different halves of your brain.
Jenny LeClue - Detectivu
- Studio: Noodlecake
- Age rating: 12+
- Use a gamepad? Yes
The first of two games inspired by Donald J. Sobol's Encyclopedia Brown series of kid mysteries, Jenny LeClue challenges you to play both as the titular plucky preteen detective (or is it 'detectivu'? Some mysteries may never be solved) and her own author. The sales of his quaint, cozy mystery series have taken a nosedive, and though he longs to keep Jenny's world safe and harmless, his editor's pressuring him to heap death and danger on the little town of Arthurton and its most accomplished child sleuth.
That meta aspect adds fun depth to the story, which also benefits from sharp characterization. Jenny's more Veronica Mars than Nancy Drew – prickly, brusque, and prone to push people away without realizing it. The game's gorgeous autumnal look draws you in, as does the eerie and atmospheric prologue. And the gameplay itself is fun and varied, challenging you to make snap decisions that affect how the story plays out, scrutinize characters and crime scenes for visual clues, and think like a detective to assemble your observations into a theory of the case.
Tangle Tower
- Studio: SFB Games
- Age rating: 4+
- Use a gamepad? No
A young painter, seemingly murdered by the knife-wielding figure on the unfinished canvas she was painting? Now that's a great way to kick off a mystery. Tangle Tower brings its intrepid investigators – earnest hipster doofus Grimoire (like 'encyclopedia,' a name for a book of knowledge) and too-cool-for-the-room Sally (sharing a name with Encyclopedia Brown's similarly tough sidekick) – to the titular mansion to solve that baffling murder.
There, you'll have to rub elbows with the eccentric members of two families, united by marriage and living in opposite towers of the same building. Witty writing, fun voice acting, gorgeous music, and a delightful Euro-anime visual style make Tangle Tower stand out from the crowd. The puzzles you'll solve are varied, neither too easy nor too frustrating, and always tied to the characters around them. Like Jenny LeClue, Tangle Tower wants you to think like a gumshoe and connect dots between the evidence you've gathered. But its approach to those efforts differs enough that playing one game will only leave you more eager to try the other.
The Enchanted World
- Studio: Noodlecake
- Age rating: 4+
- Use a gamepad? No
Something has stolen your nameless young fairy's mother away, and to get her back, you and your magic staff will have to rearrange the world around you as you proceed along your path. The Enchanted World executes a simple conceit – basically, sliding-tile puzzles, where you have to shift around and swap out segments of a grid until they line up the right way – very well.
The game finds increasingly novel ways to tweak this core mechanic, whether you're revising and re-revising your path to first banish the creature that's blocking your way, then escape to the exit, or figuring out how to channel a stopped-up river in the right direction. The deliberately crude graphics mirror this 'simple but well done' approach, making up for a low polygon count with expressive animation. Plus, it's just fun to tap trees and watch them bloom while your fairy hums a happy, distracted little tune.
The Bradwell Conspiracy
- Studio: A Brave Plan
- Age rating: 9+
- Use a gamepad? Yes
Welcome to a very English catastrophe. You chose the wrong near-future day to visit a new high-tech museum dedicated to Stonehenge, sponsored by the powerful Bradwell Corporation. Now a mysterious calamity has caved in the building, with you trapped inside.
Luckily, the smart glasses you're wearing connect you with a plucky Bradwell employee who's stuck in another part of the collapsing building. Together, you'll have to navigate the company's Brutalist underground HQ looking for a way to escape. Along the way, you'll both start to discover ominous hints that neither Bradwell nor its 'clean water initiative' is as benign as they appear.
Take Portal's off-kilter corporate dystopia, add a dash of BioShock's futurism-gone-to-seed, and blend well with bone-dry humor (or is that humour?), and you've got The Bradwell Conspiracy. The simple, utilitarian graphics won't drop any jaws, but the game's level design does a great job of unobtrusively telling a story. It's fun to communicate with your fellow escapee by snapping photographs of your surroundings to send to her, and her very American cheerfulness strikes a great contrast to your droll British surroundings.
There's a neat twist to the nonviolent gameplay I dare not spoil here, one that leans into the Portal comparisons hard while remaining clever and original. It can be annoyingly finicky in execution — maybe future patches will fix that, along with the occasional glitches that crop up later in the game — but like The Bradwell Conspiracy itself, it's still a fun, worthwhile idea.
Down in Bermuda
- Studio: Yak & co.
- Age rating: 9+
- Use a gamepad? No
Thirty years ago, aviator Milton's plane crashed in the Bermuda Triangle. Now, bearded and wizened, he needs your help to navigate a series of strange islands, piece together his past, and find his way home. You'll poke, flick, tap, and twist your way through colorful three-dimensional dioramas in search of hidden objects and puzzles to solve. If augmented reality were ready for prime time, this game and its host of tactile interactions would be a killer app.
As befits its tropical setting, Down in Bermuda is a laid-back affair, with cute and colorful graphics and a goofy, ever-changing set of challenges. The puzzles range from 'preschool easy' to 'I filled an entire notebook page with sequences of numbers trying to get this one right.' But they're all fun, and if you get stuck on one, there's usually another waiting to distract you. And the story, though told in the briefest of glimpses, manages to tug at your heartstrings right off the bat.
Down in Bermuda loses points only because I nearly drove myself crazy looking for the last in a series of teeny-tiny hidden items on one island – I had to turn to the Internet to suss it out – and because it's incomplete. You'll find only three islands at launch, with more promised in the future. Still, 'I wish I could have played more' is a pretty great complaint to have.
Operator 41
- Studio: Shifty Eye
- Age rating: 4+
- Use a gamepad? No
Okay, time out — this polished, clever game, which lifts its spy-fy vibe straight from the swinging heyday of James Bond, Emma Peel, and U.N.C.L.E., was made by a teenager? Spruce Campbell, we'd toast you with a dry martini, but even in your native UK, you're still too young to drink.
There's not much of a story here: In each bite-size vignette, you'll help your trenchcoat-clad avatar sneak past patrolling guards and other hazards toward a phone or other spy objective. You'll have to crouch in cover, toss obstacles to distract or knock out your pursuers and avoid flashlight beams and security cameras.
But what the game lacks in complexity, it makes up for in style. The clever two-color scheme – red for objectives, danger, or occasional contrast, cool blue for everything else – makes your goal in each level crystal clear. Controls respond well, the intuitive rules play fair, and the difficulty level ramps up smoothly as you progress. With a relative handful of levels before the slick end credits, you'll likely wish there were more to enjoy here. But Operator 41's fun stealth challenges make it a great candidate for gaming on the go whenever you have a few minutes to spare.
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Where Cards Fall
- Studio: Snowman.
- Age rating: 12+
- Use a gamepad? No
I wanted to like this much-hyped combination puzzle game/coming-of-age story, but it quickly fell apart. The game looks and sounds gorgeous, and the play mechanic – moving decks of cards around the isometric worlds of a young man's memories, and expanding them into houses of cards that help him traverse the landscape to his next flashback – feels fresh.
Unfortunately, the game moves slooooowly, and the story wavers back and forth between being utterly incomprehensible – what's with those giant staring eyes? Is that like a symbol for authority? Was it really a good idea to have all the characters speak in annoying gibberish? – and ploddingly predictable. (Oh, your loner emo high school outcast is drifting away from the friends of his youth while he falls for a girl who's dating someone else? Do tell.)
Worse yet, the difficulty jumps from pleasantly challenging to dang near impossible without warning. By the time the baffling interface led me blunder back to the very first level, with no apparent way to regain my progress, I was ready to fold.
The Get Out Kids
- Studio: Frosty Pop
- Age rating: 9+
- Use a gamepad? No
The opposite of Where Cards Fall, The Get Out Kids's wonderful writing and characters ultimately fall prey to its frustrating lack of gameplay. The story feels like your favorite dog-eared book from middle school, as a pair of instantly endearing preteen misfits wade into danger in search of their missing dog.
Unfortunately, there's a lot of that story and relatively little interactivity – a relative handful of super-easy touch-based puzzles that rarely offer any challenge or suspense. And you have to plod your way through the narration and dialogue one tap at a time, which makes the all-too-brief intervals when you get to do one tiny, simple thing even more aggravating. I adored this game's sweet and vulnerable heroes, and I want to see how their story plays out. I'm just not sure I want that bad enough to put the time into playing it.
Murder Mystery Machine
- Studio: Blazing Griffin Ltd.
- Age rating: 12+
- Use a gamepad? No
The only mystery here is how a subpar CD-ROM game found its way onto my iPad. Murder Mystery Machine seems like it was made with the finest technology 1995 had to offer, and written by someone who heard about life in the United States once, briefly, from a passing acquaintance. With murky graphics, clunky and confusing gameplay, and clichés instead of characters, this 'episodic murder mystery' killed off my interest well before I even got through the first installment.
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Myst is an adventurous puzzle game where players take control of the main character in the Myst Island. It is all about revealing mysterious books that open up new worlds and eras. Gradually along with your journey in the island, you explore several things and get to know the entire story. The article here is to describe you the games like Myst that fulfill your gameplay desire that remain same as Myst.
Gameplay in the Myst offers a first-person perspective with the point and click mechanism. The Game offers multiple endings, so your actions here describe the ending. Now, let’s know more about these fifteen alternative games.
Myst Game Details:
Platforms: Mac OS, Saturn, PlayStation, 3DO, Microsoft Windows, Atari Jaguar CD, CD-i, AmigaOS, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, iOS, Nintendo 3DS, Android
Genres: Graphic adventure, puzzle
Modes: Single-player
Myst IV Revelation System Requirements (minimum)
- RAM: 128 MB (256 MB required if running Win XP)
- CPUSPEED: 700 mhz
- CPU: Pentium III or Athlon
- OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP (95 & NT not supported)
- DIRECTXVERSION: 9.0 (included)
- VIDEOCARD: 32 MB DirectX 9 compliant video card(GeForce2+ /Radeon 7000+ /Intel 865G+)
- FREEDISK SPACE: 3 GB for minimum install
- SOUND CARD: Yes
- DVD-ROM: Yes
15 Games like Myst
Check out our 2018 collections of free games like Myst for Android, PC, PS4, Xbox, on Steam with System Requirements.
#1 Obduction
The game world offers an alien environment where you as a human gets dropped in a strange place. This place looks like the alien land so the landscapes seem a combination of earth and alien world. Here your journey starts with finding the path back to home, so exploration takes place that gets you several puzzles to solve and step forward.
Gameplay offers the first person perspective that is a point and click system just like Myst, so you are not going to feel the same experience. A unique ability is that you can test the elements to solve the puzzle and this all happens in a 3D environment.
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows, Mac
#2 XON Episode One
Another inspiration for Myst that seems appealing with the beautiful landscapes. A very fine background music always runs along and adds a perfect aura with the spectacular environments.
XON Episode One is an open world game where you feel almost no restrictions and explores wherever you want. The atmosphere contains an alien-like land, so it’s like a mixture of land and alien earth regarding technology and other objects.
Gameplay depends on puzzle solving genre where adventure follows you along. The blend of human and alien elements makes it a unique aspect to play. All in all, you are not going to miss Myst after getting into the world of XON.
Platforms: Android
#3 Timelapse
Here the player is on the role of an adventurer who gets a call from the Professor Alexander Nichols. You get an invitation to reach Easter Island but when you reach you find nothing except professor’s journal and camera. The entire puzzle-solving scenario is based on the lost city of Atlantis.
From here the gameplay begins that take you to explore several strange lands of Egypt, Maya, and Anasazi. Your mission is to reach Atlantis to get your friend Nichols and for this player must establish a series of several tasks and puzzles. Additionally, gameplay allows you to read that left journal to get help on the adventure.
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Mac
#4 Ether One
One of the Myst alternatives and in the game you play the role of a memory restorer. You reconstruct the memory of a lady who has been suffering from a mental illness. So the entire storyline depends on getting the memory of patient from their childhood to current and sort them using the proper technology.
The gameplay depends on puzzle solving where you solve several mysteries while restoring the memories. Gameplay takes you in the town of Pinwheel where you start performing tasks. The puzzle solving begins with the most straightforward puzzle and with the time it gets deep and somewhat difficult.
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows
#5 XING: The Land Beyond
The game drops you in the land called XING where your adventure starts after your death, so you work as a ghost in the puzzle solving genre. As your journey begins, you start solving all the mysteries and stories to experience how life seems after death.
So being an afterlife environment, the world of XING always attracts players to try the puzzle based game. The gameplay in Xing offers a first-person perspective where it all depends on your logical and creative mind. There are several environments to explore such as jungle, desert, mountain, and island and all these look so beautiful.
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows
#6 Dream
Here you are in the role of Howard Phillips who is at the young age and spending a boring life that seems stuck. But the adventure begins when you as a character get communicative dreams.
Your journey starts with solving the meaning of these dreams in the form of puzzles and find out more about your future with every solved mystery. The gameplay offers a 3D environment where you discover paths to get the meaning of your life. A unique feature also keeps you from repeating the same environment again and again, and the gameplay offers you three endings based on your actions.
Platform: Steam
#7 The Witness
The game sets you on an island that is a large open world to explore. It is like a classic form of Myst where you solve each puzzles using the visuals and audios on the track. The character is like roaming on an island which has no memory at all land collecting puzzles to find the existence. This entire journey takes you more than 500 puzzles that you solve and finds clues to discover yourself.
Gameplay seems like making use of puzzle-based genre very intelligently. The game is full of uniqueness that makes you addicted to the gameplay where all the environments seem spectacular to explore regularly.
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, iOS, Android, Mac
#8 Machinarium
A game that offers you the point and click style just like Myst. The adventure is full of colorful aura but features no audio. The overall gameplay is based on puzzle solving that sets your path to find those Easter eggs and get collect every part of the story one by one. The dual-tier hint system that gets you, even more, help when you feel lost or stuck.
The gameplay is very engaging as you almost find yourself busy in playing and forget that it’s a puzzle-solving scenario. So the game deserves begins here among the Myst alternatives.
Platforms: Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 3,4, Vita, Android
#9 Atlantis: The Lost Tales
Just like its name, the game takes you to the puzzle solving adventure that is oriented to the lost city of Atlantis. Here you take the role of Seth who is a personal protector of the Queen of Atlantis. Now, after the queen is missing so, you go on the journey of investigating things and finding your queen.
The gameplay is a first-person perspective with 3D graphics that are amazingly decorated within the game world. There are several environments to explore and collect the cures that take you forward to find the queen. As the puzzle goes on you, find a bit difficulty in every phase, and that’s what keeps you engaged.
Platforms: Windows, PlayStation, Mac, Sega Saturn, DOS, MS-DOS, IBM PC compatible
#10 The Whispered World
The game adds up a clown based fantasy world where you join as Sadwick, a sad clown, getting all weird dreams. The clown feels disturbed with these dreams and decides to take a walk in the nearby forest. There he meets characters and starts getting the meaning of his dreams. So the journey takes you forward solving the mysteries of Chadwick’s life.
The gameplay offers you a classic mechanic that is point and click to continue your adventure.
The spectacular aura and the unique mechanisms make it all worth to play. The gameplay brings out the 2D side-scrolling mechanism in the single-player mode with the NPC characters.
Platforms: Windows, Mac
#11 Gray Matter
The world takes you around Oxford, London where you join the character of Samantha who is a magician and performs on the street. Sam’s life seems fine until she gets her bike broken and takes shelter in David’s mansion. This is where the adventure begins when she finds several types of research of David. Slowly she starts solving them and knows more about the mansion.
Gameplay is point and click where you take up new puzzle via the NPCs where you also sometimes play as the professor David. The puzzle things bring you several types such as visual puzzles, word games, riddles, and some magic tricks too.
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Platforms: Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows
#12 Hiversaires
Hiversaires justifies the same genre that is puzzle solving and brings you the point and click, this way it is here as one of the Myst like games. The fantastic thing is the availability of the smartphone platforms for giving you the mysterious play. Another great thing is that Hiversaires doesn’t make it too difficult to play. Hence it’s like the simplest form of the puzzle solving genre.
Gameplay offers you proper tutorials, so you understand the game world easily. The challenges solving mechanics are satisfying enough, so you believe in your creativity and apply logic.
The soundtrack makes the journey enjoyable, and it is really a mood booster.
#13 The Longest Journey
The Longest Journey is more like a complex system for solving puzzles, so you keep scratching your brain to get going in the mesmerizing world. The game world takes you in the parallel universes where being the character April Ryan you can switch between these universes.
There are several objects you get to interact while solving puzzles about the game world. The long length dialogues make it more enjoyable and understandable, and it’s a unique aspect too. Other than that, gameplay also brings you several locations that are wid to explore, amazing characters, and a deep amount of content to make the journey long.
Platforms: Windows, iOS
#14 Real Myst
If you really miss playing Myst and Real Myst is another game that you must try to experience even more improved gameplay. It is like another form of Myst but with extra features that you can get on IOS or just PC. The game world is huge, so it gives you free roaming in that 3D world. A weather system is activated too so players can feel being in different atmospheres like rain, sunsets, and thunderstorm while moving out puzzles.
The gameplay remains same as the original one where you will feel improved soundtrack, environments, navigation, interaction to the objects, and other exciting features. This way, the game is such a perfect one among the Myst like games.
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, iOS, Macintosh operating systems, Android
#15 Syberia
A mix up of elements that promotes innovative features plus historical settings too. It is the unique thing about the game that anyone can easily feel while playing. This is the role of Kate Walker who has been regularly making attempts to sell the law firm and maintaining a not so good relationship with her fiancé.
The gameplay requires the puzzles to be solved in a remote village using the third person perspective. Using the mouse controls you can interact to the objects, solve puzzles, and move forward. The game has wide content to offer, and there is no chance of getting stuck with any decision you make.
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Windows Mobile, Nintendo DS, Android, OS X, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, iOS, Nintendo Switch
Conclusion
All the games like Myst follow the puzzle solving genre and each of them features some new and unique. So I am sure you can’t go wrong with any of them while finding a Myst alternative.
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So keep enjoying playing the alternatives and share your opinions here.