Myst studio Cyan enter the Virtual Age with Firmament

Cyan Worlds have by no means been one to depart a brand new frontier unexplored. As naff as Myst could seem by trendy journey requirements, it went an extended strategy to put the CD-ROM medium on the map for PC and Mac gaming. Uru Live could have fallen via, but it surely was forward of its time when it got here to delivering community-driven MMO ideas. Now, they’re taking a direct poke at digital actuality with their subsequent upcoming recreation, Firmament.

Inside, out of the biting chilly, we’ve obtained a mug of scorching cocoa and a respectably prolonged teaser trailer, setting the scene and tone for the undoubtedly maddening hands-on point-and-clickery forward.

So, we’ve obtained some Bioshock-esque steampunk’y know-how, a dramatic sounding girl techno-ghost in a floating drone gadget, and a few type of deep underground super-science analysis facility to discover. So far, so Cyan, actually. I’ve but to play their newest – the crowdfunded Obduction – however I’ve heard no scarcity of pretty issues about it, so it doesn’t appear a lot of a logical leap to imagine they’ll switch the expertise to VR. My solely actual concern is whether or not they’ll should sacrifice visible readability to attain their objectives.

Firmament remains to be a little bit of a thriller, with Cyan not even having granted it an official web page on their web site but. We’ll be maintaining a detailed eye on this one, and with a bit of luck and a following wind, it’ll be one of many first new VR titles I get to check out as soon as the next-gen HTC headsets roll out.