Games like Riven

Still thinking about Riven and its atmospheric and mysterious tone? These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.

Myst
Myst drops you on a beautiful, silent island with no instructions and a mystery to unravel. Explore strange worlds called Ages, work out what happened to the family that lived here, and make choices that decide how the story ends. A calm, atmospheric puzzle adventure, rebuilt in full 3D with VR support.
Atmospheric, Mysterious, Story-driven
88% of 2,029 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$34.99
Obduction
One cloudy night by the lake, something falls from the sky and takes you across the universe. Obduction drops you into alien worlds stitched with pieces of Earth, and leaves you to explore, puzzle and piece together how to get home. A slow, beautiful, quietly strange adventure from the makers of Myst.
Atmospheric, Mysterious, Story-driven
78% of 3,050 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$29.99
RiME
A puzzle adventure about a boy who washes up on a sunlit island after a storm. With a fox at your heels, you explore ruins, solve puzzles with sound, light and shadow, and climb toward a tower that keeps its secrets. It tells its whole story without a single word, and the ending lands hard.
Atmospheric, Mysterious, Story-driven
90% of 3,233 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$29.99
RHEM II SE: The Cave
RHEM II SE - The Cave Special Edition is an intricate pure-puzzle first person adventure game. The player explores a hidden city far beneath the earths surface. RHEM II SE features non-linear gameplay non-violent story and mind-bending puzzles.
Atmospheric, Mysterious, Story-driven
98% of 46 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Dimhaven - The Lost Source
Emily Ravenstone parachutes onto Dimhaven, a misty island where her uncle vanished, camera in hand. A first-person mystery from the team behind Quern: explore an abandoned tourist paradise, photograph clues, and untangle clever puzzles that reveal what really happened. Atmospheric, story-driven and gently strange, with an albatross that steals your passport. No timers, no pressure, just you and the island.
Also in Detective · Atmospheric, Mysterious, Story-driven
86% of 1,015 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$25.99
Riddle of the Sphinx™ The Awakening (Enhanced Edition)
Riddle of the Sphinx™ The Awakening is an epic Egyptian adventure into the Giza Sphinx & Great Pyramid—the last of the seven ancient wonders. Explore secret chambers, discover hidden tombs, unearth sacred relics, & unravel an ancient Riddle, entombed for centuries by the ancient Egyptians!
Also in Detective · Atmospheric, Mysterious, Story-driven
83% of 84 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
The 7th Guest Remake
Six guests arrive at a haunted mansion. The toymaker Henry Stauf wants something from them, and only the house knows what. Explore it in first person, solve puzzles rooted in its lore, and watch real actors appear in full 3D around you. A classic mystery adventure, rebuilt for modern screens.
Atmospheric, Mysterious, Story-driven
86% of 282 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11
Quern - Undying Thoughts
Trapped on an island after a portal closes behind you, you explore its quiet corners, crack mechanical puzzles that build on each other, and piece together what happened here. A first-person puzzle adventure for anyone who likes taking notes, thinking hard and wandering somewhere beautiful.
Also in Detective · Atmospheric, Mysterious, Story-driven
90% of 3,881 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 120$2.49
RHEM IV: The Golden Fragments SE
RHEM IV takes you into a huge, fantastic world full of strange vehicles and buildings, secret passages and doorways. A sense of adventure, logic, attentiveness and the ability to solve puzzles will help the player to slowly but surely unveil the mystery of this latest adventure on the island RHEM.
Atmospheric, Mysterious, Story-driven
98% of 41 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Rivage
Trapped alone on the A.R.E.S. space station, caught in a cosmic anomaly, scientist Miranda must puzzle her way through its locked sections to learn what happened to her crew. A first-person escape room in orbit: intricate logic puzzles, a detailed station to explore, and a mystery that unfolds one solved mechanism at a time.
Also in Detective · Atmospheric, Mysterious, Story-driven
74% of 554 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 33$24.99
Haven Moon
Haven Moon will transport you to a mysterious world where you have to explore abandoned islands and solve their secrets to find a treasure. In this Myst-like game inspired by Jules Verne’s universe, use your senses and intelligence to find your way through secret passages and curious machinery.
Also in Detective · Atmospheric, Mysterious, Story-driven
77% of 649 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Obsidian
Venture into the surreal worlds of Obƨidian...if you dare. In Obƨidian, your life is in your hands, so tread carefully. Forget everything you know about existence and prepare to be flipped on your ear. Welcome to the unknown...
Also in Detective · Atmospheric, Mysterious, Story-driven
93% of 46 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

Cheaper than Riven

Riven (1997)

Point and click your way through a strange island, piecing together its secrets through puzzles that grow out of the place itself.

$5.99

realMyst: Masterpiece Edition

Wander a strange island and its Ages in real-time 3D, solving clever puzzles at your own pace to piece together what happened long ago.

$17.99

Myst: Masterpiece Edition

Explore surreal worlds at your own pace and untangle a family betrayal through the puzzles you solve.

$5.99

Myst III: Exile

Follow a thief through dreamlike worlds, piecing together clues at your own pace until the mystery behind the stolen book finally comes together.

$14.99

Myst IV: Revelation

You explore two strange prison worlds, solve puzzles and piece together what really happened to Atrus's sons.

$14.99

Obduction

Explore strange landscapes, solve environmental puzzles and uncover how to get home, at your own pace.

$29.99

RiME

Explore a Mediterranean island, solve its quiet puzzles and climb the tower at its heart.

$29.99

RHEM II SE: The Cave

RHEM II SE - The Cave Special Edition is an intricate pure-puzzle first person adventure game.

$9.99

Dimhaven - The Lost Source

Search an abandoned resort for a missing uncle, photograph clues and solve gentle puzzles at your own pace.

$25.99

Quern - Undying Thoughts

Wander a strange island, untangle its machines and uncover the story behind your stranded arrival.

$2.49

Riddle of the Sphinx™ The Awakening (Enhanced Edition)

Riddle of the Sphinx™ The Awakening is an epic Egyptian adventure into the Giza Sphinx & Great Pyramid—the last of the seven ancient wonders.

$19.99

Myst V: End of Ages

The Grand Finale of the greatest adventure! Decide the fate of a civilization in this triumphant final chapter to the Myst saga.

$9.99

Hidden gems like Riven

Desktop Explorer

Dig through files and clues with a peculiar program to find out what happened to someone who vanished.

$17.99

Dimhaven - The Lost Source

Search an abandoned resort for a missing uncle, photograph clues and solve gentle puzzles at your own pace.

$25.99

Monument Valley 3

Guide Noor through a dreamlike world of shifting geometry, where every puzzle bends perspective and every view rewards the slow look.

$14.99

The 7th Guest Remake

Six guests arrive at a haunted mansion. The toymaker Henry Stauf wants something from them, and only the house knows what.

Amerzone - The Explorer's Legacy

You are a journalist chasing the last egg of a mythical bird across a country that a dictatorship left in ruins.

$39.99

Isles of Sea and Sky

Wander a colorful open archipelago of Sokoban-style puzzles, gaining powers that let old boxes be pushed in new ways.

$7.99

Neyyah

Waking from a strange dream, you land in Olujay and get sent on to Neyyah, a scattered chain of almost-empty islands joined by rusted levers and…

$24.99

Rivage

Solve the station's mechanisms one by one and piece together what happened to the crew.

$24.99

The House of Da Vinci 3

Solve Leonardo's intricate machines and bend time itself as his apprentice, one last time.

$19.99

Monument Valley

Guide a silent princess through monuments that rearrange themselves into paths, one calm, beautifully impossible puzzle at a time.

$7.99

Viewfinder

Solve gentle puzzles by reshaping surreal worlds with a camera that makes pictures real, and uncover the story of the people who built them.

$24.99

Myst

Solve quiet puzzles across strange worlds and uncover a family's story, with several endings waiting on your choices.

$34.99

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