Cyan is bringing its modern remakes of Myst and Riven to PS5 and PlayStation VR2 on May 19, giving PlayStation players a new way to play two of adventure gaming's most famous puzzle worlds.
The studio announced the PlayStation releases on May 5, confirming that both games will be available to wishlist immediately and will cost $34.99 each when they launch. The PlayStation versions support standard flatscreen play and PS VR2 at launch, so buyers will not need to choose between the two formats.
Myst first arrived in 1993 and became one of PC gaming's defining puzzle adventures, while Riven followed in 1997 as its sequel. Cyan's newer versions rebuild both games as explorable 3D worlds, which makes this PS5 and PS VR2 release a notable console step for players who missed the earlier PC, Mac, Xbox or VR versions.
PS5 Versions Include VR, Ray Tracing And Performance Options
Cyan said the toughest part of the PlayStation work was making sure both flatscreen and VR modes felt right. The studio brought lessons across from Firmament, its previous PS5 game with 2D and VR support, and said work on Myst and Riven has also fed improvements back into Firmament.
On PS5, both Myst and Riven support ray-traced reflections in flatscreen mode only. Turning ray-traced reflections on limits the frame rate to 30 FPS, while disabling them swaps to screen-space reflections and raises the frame rate to 60 FPS. Players can make that choice through each game's Display settings by using the Performance Mode option.
Both games are also officially PS5 Pro Enhanced. Cyan says PS5 Pro players can expect higher graphical fidelity in flatscreen mode, including better view distance, foliage, textures, post-processing and shading. In VR, PS5 Pro raises the base render resolution for both games, while Riven also gets a better base render resolution in flatscreen mode when Performance Mode remains enabled.
The remakes use tuned versions of Unreal Engine's TSR upscaling on base PS5 and PS5 Pro. Cyan is also adding support for PS5's Power Saver mode, which reduces each game's base render resolution and forces a fixed 30 FPS frame rate to lower energy use.
For PlayStation players, the headline is simple: two landmark adventure games are arriving together, with VR included and enough technical options to make the remakes fit different setups. Myst and Riven launch for PS5 and PS VR2 on May 19.