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Myst (2021) Achievements Guide
By ReverendTed
A guide to the Steam Achievements in the 2021 release of Myst. Contains spoilers.
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Story Achievements
While it is technically possible to complete Myst without triggering them, these Achievements are expected to be completed when playing through Myst in the normal manner.
Consult a game walkthrough for more detail on completing these tasks.


Safecracker
Description: Opened the safe in the cabin.

Can Opener
Description: Solved the gear puzzle inside of the clocktower.

Salvager
Description: Raised the sunken ship.

Stargazer
Description: Viewed some dated constellations.

Journeyman Electrician
Description: Solved the generator power puzzle.

Channelwood
Description: Found a way back from Channelwood

Mechanical
Description: Found a way back from Mechanical.

Beacon
Description: Solved the compass puzzle.

Stoneship
Description: Found a way back from Stoneship.

Selenitic
Description: Found a way back from Selenitic.

Inside
Description: Found the white page.

Firecracker
Description: Solved the fireplace puzzle.


Ending Achievements
These Achievements are obtained by triggering various endings to Myst.


Everything Is In Its Place
Description: Achieved the good ending.
Conditions: Link to D'ni while possessing the white page.

D'ni
Description: Returned to Myst Island from D'ni.
Conditions: Achieve the good ending, then return using the Myst linking book.

Know-It-All
Description: Achieved the good ending without inserting a single red or blue page.
Conditions: Most easily obtained using a Classic playthrough since puzzle solutions do not change, and all but guaranteed if attempting the Speedy Achievement. Start a new playthrough, and using knowledge from a completed game, obtain the white page from the docks, enter the fireplace code, and link to D'ni.

Roommates
Description: Achieved the bad ending with Atrus.
Conditions: Link to D'ni without having obtained the white page.

You Fool!
Description: Achieved bad ending with Sirrus.
Conditions: Insert all 6 red pages into the red book, freeing Sirrus.

I'm Free!
Description: Achieved bad ending with Achenar.
Conditions: Insert all 6 blue pages into the blue book, freeing Achenar.

After All of That Effort...
Description: Achieved one of the brothers' endings while on a randomized playthrough.


Other Achievements


He Is Preparing
Description: Found Sirrus' message to Achenar.
Conditions: In Achenar's bedroom in Channelwood, push the far-right button on the holographic display device to view the message from Sirrus.

Top Of The World
Description: Rode the tree to the highest position.
Conditions: Get in the tree elevator (treelevator?) near the cabin on the main island as it is rising and let it go all the way up. This may be most easily accomplished once you've reached the bottom. There is a wheel beside the elevator you can turn, then quickly get inside to begin riding it back up.

Perfect Pitch
Description: Solved the piano puzzle in a single try.
Conditions: Have all the notes correctly set in the Rocketship the first time you slide the lever.
I recommend saving your game before sliding the lever to confirm your solution to the puzzle, so you can reload if your solution wasn't correct. Either carefully match the tones, or simply count by keeping in mind that the notches on the left and right of the sliders correspond to white and black keys on the keyboard, respectively, with the bottom corresponding to the left (low) side of the keyboard.

It's Bob!
Description: Found the skeleton in the Mechanical Age.
Conditions: With the Fortress in the Mechanical Age rotated so that the bridge points to nothing, a skeleton can be seen through the telescope in Sirrus' bedroom. That's Bob!
More than one commenter has reported it is necessary to look for Bob before collecting the Mechanical Age's Red or Blue pages in order for the achievement to trigger.

Never Lost
Description: Made it through the maze in Selenitic without pressing "backtrack" on a randomized playthrough.
Conditions: The tones tell you which direction to go.
Unconfirmed, but it appears the tones may the same as in a Classic playthrough, and only the sequence of the path changes.
Ding: North
Rattle: West
Clonk: South
Pssht: East
Also, you may be able to backtrack without losing the Achievement by turning all the way around and only using the forward control, as long as you don't pull the joystick back into the "backtrack" position.


Stack Overflow
Description: Fill up all of the shelf space for a page type.
Conditions: Obtain all 6 pages for one of the brothers and place them all onto their shelf WITHOUT actually putting any of them into the corresponding book. On a Classic playthrough, you can collect all the pages from the Ages and use the known fireplace code to acquire the 6th. Alternatively, you can insert 5 pages into the book of one brother to learn the page number of the fireplace code without inserting any pages into the book of the other brother.

Speedy
Description: Achieved the good ending within two minutes
NOTE: The Speedy Achievement was broken until Patch 8 (released October 7th, 2022) but should now be attainable.
Conditions: Start a New Game and select Classic, since the puzzle solutions do not change. You must: turn on all the marker switches, one of which requires setting the clocktower time to 2:40 to raise the path to its marker switch, then turn off the marker switch on the docks to obtain the white page. Then you must enter the fireplace, quickly enter the fireplace code, and link into D'ni using the green book. The timer starts the moment you gain control of your character on the dock. The Achievement should unlock as soon as you've linked into D'ni. It is possible to unlock the achievement using free movement in VR, provided you quickly activate running speed at the start.
33 Comments
ReverendTed  [author] 14 Jul @ 2:02pm 
Thanks for the tip, Big Wooper!
Croissant Nibbler 14 Jul @ 10:57am 
I want to clarify that I got the It's Bob achievement on a randomized game.
CYB3R5KU11 24 Dec, 2023 @ 7:31pm 
idk if its because my game bugged or what but when I tried to get its bob (I did NOT yet pick up any pages at all as I was going for the stack overflow and after all that effort achievements) it didnt work, when I finished and went back through on classic 1993 it then worked, so I think you MUST be on classic 1993 to get its bob and not a randomized game
glabnob 15 Sep, 2023 @ 4:50pm 
Speedy took me four tries; I would trigger the clocktower bridge to start raising then grab the last switch (by the treelevator) while it was coming up to leverage a couple of spare seconds that would otherwise be spent standing around.
Quas NaArt 2 Aug, 2023 @ 10:48pm 
Speedy confirmed. It's just really tight, without room for error even knowing the solution.
ReverendTed  [author] 22 Jul, 2023 @ 8:28pm 
@me@n_mach1ne
It shouldn't be, unless something broke again. I, and many others, have been able to unlock it following Patch 8 last year.
me@n_mach1ne 22 Jul, 2023 @ 4:32pm 
Speedy seems to still be broken
Vulpis 30 Apr, 2023 @ 3:23pm 
Just as a side note, Perfect Pitch is made a lot easier by a) taking a photo/making notes of the keyboard in the library book, and b) the fact that this version tells you the note (might require captions turned on?) so us tone-deaf folks don't have to rely on the sound alone. c) The sliders also show the note played.
MagicMaster667 9 Oct, 2022 @ 3:12pm 
Overjoyed to hear that the Speedy achievement was patched tonight! 🥳🎉
ReverendTed  [author] 7 Oct, 2022 @ 9:14pm 
Hooray!