It is a work simulator game. Nothing like Riven or Myst :(

Having just played the rerelease of Myst and hopping over to Firmament afterwards, I have to say, I'm quite disappointed. The puzzles themselves are not too bad, if a little finnicky sometimes because of the targeting of the Adjunct (your tool to solve most puzzles), and they were generally fun, but what felt like it was underdeveloped was the world and the story. We have this narrator of sorts (with just okay-at-best voice acting, which was already a rough choice for the game), leading us through this world to complete tasks as we are apparently supposed to as is our character's job. And then the narrator tells us a little tiny bit about the past in various locations, and then there's a quick twist at the end once you've done everything, that I don't want to say "came out of nowhere" but it just feels inconsequential at best? And then finding out that a lot of the "background details" were AI assisted, all the letters and journals and such you can find in the background, which just speaks to me about the level which they didn't care about the world they were creating. When I backed this game on Kickstarter, this was not the type of Cyan game I backed. I didn't want a puzzle game thrown together with little regard for the world it takes place in, I wanted a game where the gameplay and the world are inextricable from each other. This game, unfortunately, just fell flat for me.

EDIT: having read up on Cyan's responses to the AI assistance stuff, i want to add an addendum here. Apparently, they only used it for ideation and trying new things out, and created and wrote everything themselves. Then I guess they just actively wrote a pretty underwhelming world and game. I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that the weak parts came from their overreliance on AI but if their official claim is that all actual texts and such in the game are written by humans well then they're just not very good, which sucks.

Good game. It's not Riven, but it's okay. I'm not sure if the graphics deserve a Ryzen 7 in minimum requirements, but it looks very good. A game to buy on sale. 6.5/10