The letter from Atrus to Catherine is missing, so you have no idea what the switches are for. I hate literally every control that isn't a button. The clock tower puzzle is an unbelievable pain in the ass, getting the levers to move all the way down and not release is very fussy, I bet most new players cannot get them to work. Knobs don't turn linearly, but sort of randomly spinning to a new value as you move your finger. The log cabin door was difficult to tap on, which you need to do at speed to reach SPOILER REDACTED. Doors you tap on the handle… sometimes that works. Some switches you tap and they flip to the opposite state, some you have to pull all the way into position. Some buttons you just tap (there's a new button to open the imager cave).

Doors are still sliders, rather than swinging open 3D budget doesn't go that far, I guess. The problem is the controls are all over the place. Movement is with a soft joystick, and drag the screen to rotate camera. I picked the 'randomize puzzles' option, and sure enough the puzzles are different from standard, but all solved the same way as OG, go read books and look up values in the library, planetarium, click buttons and do a little math, etc. Indoors in Myst Mobile I often couldn't see much of anything, at the same brightness settings that were usable in realMyst.

I think realMyst has better lighting, or at least more consistent. I can get better views from MineTest with shaders. The graphics textures & grass and such are much better, early '10s quality but still not peak AAA quality. Myst Mobile now, needs a pretty modern iPad, my Air works fine but got very hot. I'm not going to re-solve it, but I did so without cheats last time (sweet Cthulhu I hate the subway puzzle, and should've cheated that). The graphics are fine for an early-00s 3D game, and honestly you don't need more than that. You'll want to 'invert look' (I just started it up for a screenshot, and couldn't get up the stairs until I flicked that switch). RealMyst has a pretty reasonable modern interface. ★★★★½ (down ½ for the tiny window & unlabelled tap areas the content is ★★★★★) You think Myst is perplexing, Manhole is 100x weirder and harder to navigate. Go experience it, it's $1.99 and maybe the best if most amateur, almost outsider art thing Cyan's ever done. It's for kids ('V is for VOID'), but you'll like it. But it's also the only version that has Riven! And it's basically playable. Myst (Legacy) & Riven (Legacy) has screen-by-screen tapping, it's extremely obscure what's going to happen when you do, and the low-rez screens compressed into the teeny OG iPhone size aren't great. On Mac, I played the original CDROM Mac Classic Myst, Riven, URU, and 'realMyst Masterpiece', Obduction off Steam. I've so far on iOS bought 'Myst (Legacy) for Mobile', 'Riven (Legacy) for Mobile', 'The Manhole: Masterpiece', and 'realMyst'. So there's yet another version of Myst on the App Store

Myst 2021 piano puzzle