The new steampunk adventure game from the makers of Myst recommends 32GB RAM and I have no idea why

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Firmament(opens in new tab), the new game from Myst developer Cyan, will be out on May 18, and it will probably not surprise you to hear that, going by the new trailer, it will be a lot like Myst.

It sounds like Myst, too. Firmament is a «puzzle-adventure game» that takes place in three unique and seemingly abandoned worlds, each one filled with bizarre, incredible machines that serve no apparent purpose. Your reason for being there is unknown, but figuring out how the world works will ultimately uncover your role in it.

And unlike previous Cyan games, you won't undertake your quest alone in this one. You'll be accompanied on your adventure by a silent «clockwork companion» called the Adjunct, who will help you solve puzzles through a vocabulary of hand gestures that will grow over the course of the game, as well as «a mysterious apparition with a story of her own.»

It's obviously very Myst-like but really, I wouldn't have it any other way. Myst is divisive, and as we said in our review of the 2021 remake(opens in new tab), it's also very old. But Cyan is uniquely good at making these sorts of sprawling, deeply strange and lonely worlds, and I'm eager to see what it comes up with next. Maybe it'll be another straight-up Myst-alike, but the studio promises it will deliver «deep storytelling and rich world-building,» which some people would probably argue hasn't been a hallmark of Cyan's games for the past 20 years or so. (I still haven't made up my mind about Uru.)

I take comfort knowing that I'm not the only one who wants to see more of this kind of thing from Cyan: Its development was enabled by a successful $1.4 million Kickstarter campaign(opens in new tab) that ran in 2019. (The expected July 2020 release was a major