History VideoGame / MystIIIExile

''Myst III: Exile'' is the third game in the ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' series. This was the first ''Myst'' game not made by the Miller brothers, who handed off development to Presto Studios, the developers of ''VideoGame/TheJourneymanProject'' (the ''other'' big real-actor-using first-person AdventureGame series), though Rand Miller reprises his role as Atrus. Despite not being developed by Creator/{{Cyan}}, it's included in the story canon. The game was released in 2001 for PC and UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh, and in 2002 for UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}} and UsefulNotes/PlayStation2. It was published by Creator/{{Ubisoft}}.

* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: The Releeshahn book is not only the one linking book to the Age Atrus has, it's the descriptive book he used to create and continue modifying it. Even if harming the book itself won't affect the Age (and Saavedro can't even open the book, let alone knows the Art to write into it), losing it would be a major loss to Atrus' efforts in the D'ni's restoration, to say nothing of losing contact with them forever due to the aforementioned lack of other links.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: You can use the linking book to return to Atrus immediately after Saavedro gives it to you, but this will [[spoiler:leave him trapped, knowing his civilization was fine the whole time, and that it's just out of reach]].

''Myst III: Exile'' is the third game in the ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' series. This was the first ''Myst'' game not made by the Miller brothers, who handed off development to Presto Studios, the developers of ''VideoGame/TheJourneymanProject'' (the ''other'' big real-actor-using first-person AdventureGame series), though Rand Miller reprises his role as Atrus. Despite not being developed by Cyan, it's included in the story canon. The game was released in 2001 for PC and UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh, and in 2002 for UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}} and UsefulNotes/PlayStation2. It was published by Creator/{{Ubisoft}}.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Saavedro subsisted on little squirrel-like creatures called Squees. No relation to {{Squee}}, a trope with [[NamesTheSame the same name]].

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: After solving a waterwheel puzzle in Voltaic, the player can stand on top of an axle attached to a spinning gear, which makes their viewpoint spin around at the same pace.

* Colorcodedforyourconvenience: Each of the three concept ages is a different color: Voltaic (Red), Edanna (Green), Amateria (Blue).

* LateArrivalSpoiler: For ''Book of D'ni'' You know from Atrus' journal that [[spoiler:Terahnee had slaves]], and that [[spoiler:the slave child Uta is dead]]. It does not, however, reaveal [[spoiler:just HOW horrible things were for the slaves]], or that [[spoiler:Uta gave his life to stop [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Ymur's]] power trip]].

* CoversAlwaysLie: On the game's cover, the door to the J'nanin observatory is turned 180 degrees from where it is in the actual game. This led to some pre-release speculation that the observatory could rotate. [[spoiler:It can't.]]
* DevelopersForesight: In Amateria, the Wheels of Wonder puzzle can actually be set up so that the ice ball rolls back up through the starting track. If it does, a wooden spike on the track breaks the ball before it rolls up too far.
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: There's even one ridiculous point in Exile where, after solving a waterwheel puzzle in the Voltaic Age, the gear that meshes with it makes you spin around on top in one screen.

''Myst III: Exile'' is the third game in the ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' series. This was the first ''Myst'' game not made by the Miller brothers, who handed off development to Presto Studios, the developers of ''VideoGame/TheJourneymanProject'' (the ''other'' big real-actor-using first-person AdventureGame series), though Rand Miller reprises his role as Atrus. The game was released in 2001 for PC and UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh, and in 2002 for UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}} and UsefulNotes/PlayStation2. It was published by Creator/{{Ubisoft}}.

* TravelingPipeBulge: Happens to the suction-tendrils of the Corkscrew Cattail when you water it, and the much larger pipeline-vines of the Quaffer Figs as you transfer their contents from one Fig to another.

* FantasticFlora: Loads of kinds in Edanna.