Cheat :
Hint: Photo on cliff:
In Riven, after you have advanced to a decent point in the game, go to the chamber where you first appeared in the game. In that area, go to the edge of the cliff facing the holograph room and the first transport. Look down the cliff and you will see rocks and the water. In the upper-left side of the screen, in the cliff, is a photograph of two "MYSTerious" children. Those are Robyn Miller's children.
Hint: Jungle secrets:
When you change to Disc 3 you should be at a point where all the trees are cut down. Find the path that leads to the gate. Open it and start to walk. As soon as you go under the first tree, look to your left. You should see a giant dagger sticking up out of the ground. Walk down and you will find another rolling ball thing. Remember to note what the symbol is and what sound it makes. Return to the path and start walking forwards again. When you reach the two pathways, go right. As you walk down you should see a giant fish head. Approach and inspect the head and you will find nothing. However, back on the pathway you should see two lamps. Go until all you can see is the top part. On the very top there is a small disc. Push it and see what happens.
Hint: Human:
Go to the 233rd Age (Gehn's house) after trapping Gehn there. Go down the ladder to Gehn's bedroom. Go up to a sort of round cage thing (the "holo-projector") and look in the rocks in front of you through the window. There should be a human there.
Hint: Gehn's face:
After you break the lens at the end of the game, look closely at Atrus. For a brief moment a face will appear. This also happens at the start of Riven, when Atrus holds up the Linking book to Riven. This was intentional, so that it felt like Gehn was watching you from the very beginning.
Hint: Name written in rock:
Go to the workshop island (Disc 1). After solving the boiler puzzle, go to the small balcony that has the frog trap. Climb down the ladder. At the bottom, face the ladder so that you are one screen away from being directly at the ladder. In the upper left corner is the word "Alex" written in the rock.
Hint: The "deleted" book press:
There was a book press on Crater Island (where Gehn makes his books), by the ladder up to his "house" (which was locked at the start). It was removed during the game's development, but still can be found. Face the boiler controls and click in the upper left hand corner, on the pump. You should now see an angled picture of the nice view to the left of the boiler. Look down towards the left side and you will see the upper part of the book press. Another way to see it is to walk a bit back on the catwalk and turn towards the boiler room. It is difficult to find, but it is there. If you look up, you will also be able to see it, just even more blurred.
Hint: Hidden faces:
At the start of the game, leave Temple Island and then return. Go to where you started. Next, go to the bottom of the staircase and look down to the right. Two faces are in the top-left. To find the other three, rotate the Gate Room (rotating room) until you can enter from the passage under the gate. Go under the gate, and immediately after you do that, on the right side of the screen, you will see three faces. You will only see them if you can enter the room from the place you are in.
For more hidden faces, step outside the cage where you start the game. Turn left, and look up. One face is just to the left of lower center, hidden in the rocks. The other is in the lower right corner.
More hidden faces can be seen on Temple Island, after going under the chained wood gate. The passage to Gateway room at other end must be open. Look along the right side of the screen. The three children's faces are Rand Miller's daughters.
Hint: Easter Eggs:
Use the following steps to activate the Easter Eggs in the game. Note: Click the places just once. You will know if you have done so when the cursor disappears for a second.
At the start of the game, exit your cage, go towards the stairs, turn right and look over the cliff. Click on the unconscious guy.
Go to Boiler Island. Enter Gehn's lab, find the little chest of drawers where Gehn keeps bird's eggs. Click on the little orange one.
Solve the Animal Stone puzzle on Jungle Island. Go to the Moiety Age and in your prison, click on the little bowl on the table.
On Jungle Island, go to the submarine. Travel in it to the place with the five switches. Look out of the window there and you will see the sub, back on the cliff. Click on it.
Go to Survey Island by taking the Maglev from Boiler Island. Note: You might have to turn the Maglev around and then get out. Go to the room with a long handle. Pull it, and a lift will appear from the floor. Do not go into the lift, but from where you are, click on the little star on the top of the lift.
Finally, take the Maglev from Jungle Island to Temple Island, or travel there by linking book. When you are next to the blue button near the Maglev station, turn left. You will see a triangle of light. If you look very closely, you will see the letters RAWA, the nickname of one of the Riven programmers, Richard A. Watson. Click on the letters to activate the remaining Easter Eggs in the game, as follows
Lights on
Go to Temple Island, the island you started from. Go to the room with the Whark statues and the temple itself. Make it so you are looking at the room from the exit (where the Maglav is found) There is a hidden switch in the left side, on one of the pillars. Press it.
Wire-frame detail
Go to where you make the "sub" descend into the water next to the village by the lagoon. Go three or four screens toward the village (until you are looking down a ladder). Then, turn right. You should see a wire-frame view of the lagoon.
Silly Putty
Go to the underwater viewing room on Plateau Island. Sit in the chair and hit the button to face the window. Pull the left hand lever and then look down at the view screen (the one used to spy on Catherine). Finally, click on the small round, brown bolt just off to the right of the view screen to view the Easter Egg movie.
Singing Gehn
Go to Ghen's 233rd world (the one you go to using the Fire-Marble Domes). Go to his bedroom and face the wall with the red tapestry and the star on it. Click on the D'ni symbol for 5 in the exact center of the star to see the Easter Egg movie.
Sky High
While you are on Jungle Island, go into the jungle. Take the elevator up to the "second" floor of the jungle and start walking up towards the control throne past the dome. Up about the middle of the stairs leading to the control throne, turn around and face the dome. To your left, down on the path underneath, you can see some lights by the side of the road. Click on the lamp farthest away from the dome to see the last Easter Egg.Walkthrough :
Part I: Generator Island
Generator Island is the island that you start the game on. Atrus sends you here with a Prison book and his journal and tells you that you need to trick Ghen into using the Prison book so that he can imprison Ghen and rescue Catherine and all of the natives of Riven from the world before it disintegrates. He sends you here (to location 1) where you promply arrive in a cage. A native arrives, talks in a strange language to you and takes the prison book. He is then ambushed by a rebel who takes the book but frees you.
Start by heading up the stairs towards 3. (You can look over the edge of the cliff to see the ambushed native if you like.) Ignore the telescope at 2 since you can’t do anything with it for a long time. When you get to 3, you can look into the room at 4. This room rotates: it has five entrances with two doorways. The button next to the door rotates the room: click it four times so that the doorways open to the entrances to your left and right. Then continue straight along the path.
At 5 you arrive at a gate. You can get around the gate by clicking underneath it. Enter to room and cross over to 8. At 8, there is a steam switch with an icon of the telescope above it. You will see many of these kinds of switches in the game: most devices in Riven are steam powered. This switch directs the steam from the ground beneath you to either the device (if the switches is lowered) or to the vent above you. Flip the switch. Head back to the doorway and pull the lever on the left. This opens up the gate that would block access to 6. Then push the button (on the right) twice to rotate the room so that the openings are at 6 and 8. Cross the room to 6.
At 6, there is a door blocking access. Turn around and pull the lever here. This opens the gate that blocks access to 7. Now, push the button twice to rotate the room so that you can cross back to 3; then at 3 push the button twice to allow access to 7. Then cross the room to 7.
At 7, walk across the bridge and enter the large domed building directly ahead at 9. This building is the main power generator for all of the devices on Riven. You can see pipes extending from this building to all of the other islands on Riven. This is why I named this island the Generator Island. Walk around the building and down the ramp until you get back outside. Here, there are two more switches, both of which control bridges, at 14 and 12 that you should flip. Then head back down the path and return to the bridge at 3.
Cross the bridge and head down the cavern tunnel. On the left there is a door that opens into 16. In 16, there is a chair which I never figured out a use for, although I believe it to be a communication device (based on several similar devices you will see later). If you enter the room and turn back around, there is a porthole thing on the left of the door. This displays a view of 17 and the lever attached to the device opens and closes the door there. Open the door. (The porthole on the right displays a view of 18.)
Return to the tunnel and head to 17. Head out the door to 18 where there is a suspended tram station. Push the blue button to call the car and hop on board. The controls are fairly easy to understand: the lever that looks like it turns circularly will turn the car around and the push lever in the middle causes the tram to move forward. Enjoy the ride -- the animation here is very well done. You arrive at the other end at 19.
Part II: Forest Island
You are now on Forest Island; so named for the forests that grow (and in some places, used to grow) here. At 20, there is a small marble in the stone that rotates. When rotated, you hear an animal sound and also see a Riven numeral. These Riven numbers are discussed in more detail when you arrive at 38 a little later in the solution.
Head through the caves to 21, and turn right heading up the stairs. (The button at 21 will call the tram if you find that it isn’t at 19 when you need it.) Head through the gate when you get to 22. Off the path in the jungle to your left, there is a path that leads to another marble (at 23). There is a large Riven dagger stuck in the ground here to let you know where this is.
Continuing along the path through 25 to 30, you will arrive at a walkway where a sentry in a watchtower above you will sound an alarm. When you go down the walkway to 43, you will see villagers here flee from you as quickly as they can. (I thought this, plus the language barrier, was a nice way of minimizing interaction with others while avoiding the appearance of a wasteland like Myst was.)
Continue along the walkway. At 41, there is a dock, but nothing docked here. Near 39, you will start climbing ladders and walking across elevated walks through the village. At 39, there is something that looks very much like an altar or a shrine and a submarine. Pull the lever next to the submarine and it will lower into the water (down to location 40). Now return down through the walkways and go to location 24.
At 24, there is a minecar. Jump into the minecar and pull the lever. The car will go through earthen tunnels, under water, and through elevated tracks all of the way to 44.
Part III: Experiment Island
You arrive in the central bay area of this island, so named because Ghen does most of his experimenting on this island. You arrive at location 44, but quickly slide down a chute to 45.
From here, walk out to 46. There is a three way switch here that controls the power to this island. Currently it is set to deliver power to 50; move the switch to the middle setting so that power goes to 47. Then return to the shore and go to 47.
At 47, flip the side lever to turn off the heat in the tank. This will cause the water to stop boiling. Then turn the wheel to drain the water away. Now, turn to your left and flip the small lever there on the pair of pipes. This will cause power to flow to the third control: the switch that raises and lowers the platform inside the building. Go around and go inside (at 48). Go down the ladder and crawl through the pipe. There will be several screens where it is pitch blank, but eventually you will emerge at 49.
When you come out of the pipe, head down the path towards 50. On the balcony, there is a ladder leading down. Open the hatch to the ladder, since it can only be opened from this side. Then open the pair of double doors and go through them. Now close the doors, since the passages leading to 51 and 53 are blocked when the doors are open. Head towards 53. Along the way, there will be a lever on the right side of the path. Pull that lever, then return to 52.
If this area has power, the device at 52 can be used. You can open the steel sphere to reveal a bear-trap like mechanism. Drag a piece of food from the dish on the right and put it in the center of the trap. Use the lever to lower the sphere into the water far below. After a few minutes, you will hear the trap snap shut. Raise the trap back up and open it and you will have a frog.
However, this is completely unnecessary. If you look up, there is a ventilation shaft. The switch you pulled near 53 turns off the fan blades so that you can crawl safely through the vent and into 54. When you arrive, you will see that 54 is Ghen’ laboratory. The most important thing in this library is the journal laying on the desk beneath the vent. Inside, you will find the access code to the linking book domes. It will look like five symbols, inside squares in a row. The code is different every game, so you have to copy down those symbols (or skip ahead to the section on Riven numbers and just note down the numbers).
Now, go to the door with the blue button and open it. This leads back out to 53. Now head across the long bridge back towards the Generator Island. Right before you get to the end of the bridge, there is a section raised up. Use the lever there to lower the bridge so you can re-enter the generator.
Part IV: Generator Island
Head inside the building and follow the catwalk around to 10. The wheel here, when turned, will extend the catwalk across to connect with 9. Now, go to 13. A section of the walkway is missing here. Turn around and push the button -- this will raise the walkway and allow you to cross over to 6. The lever here will open the door. Return to location 9 and face out towards 7. To your right is a lever. Pull the lever and this raises the stairs up. This causes the stairs to go from 7 up to 11 instead of to 9. However, you don“t know what to do at 11 yet, so lets leave. Return to 53 via the bridge.
Part V: Experiment Island
Head into the building at 54 and exit out the other door to 55. There is another tram car. (If the car is’t here, you can call it by pushing the blue button back at 54.) Get in the tram and take it across to 56.
Part VI: Map Island
At 56, take the left exit from the tram car and head out the door to 62 and up the stairs to 61. Here, there is a button that will raise you up to the next level. From here, you can look back towards 56 and see a map of the Riven islands. Pushing one of the buttons on the keypad will cause water to form on one of the land masses corresponding to its topographical shape.
You can continue around to 60 if you like; this shows the location of another of the linking spheres. When you are done looking around, head back down to 56 via 62, go through the tram until you are on the other platform and head down the passage to 57.
At 57, pull the lever to call the elevator. Inside, push the button to descend. When you exit, you will surprise Ghen in the passageway and he will run to 59. If you follow him, you can see him leave in the tram. Don’t follow him, but head back to 58 instead.
There is a chair here which offers a view of the undersea life. The left dial offers a view of the underwater area (by pushing the right button) and a view of Catherine’s cell (by pushing the left button). The right dial allows you to turn on various undersea lights. This allows you to associate each of the colors with each of the Riven symbols for that color. Note that the purple light is burned out. Alas. Now, return to 59 and take the tram across to the Forest Isle at 29.
Part VII: Forest Island
At 29, take the corridor to 28. This is an elevator. You are currently on the ground floor. The middle floor leads to a secret exit through the mouth of a fish at 27. The button to call the tram is also located here. Taking the elevator all of the way to the top leads to the treetop walkway. This is where you want to go.
Once up here, head past the linking dome at 25 to the building at 31. Sit in the chair in this building. The lever on the left will raise the chair up to a very high altitude and let you get a view of the entire village. If you look down, you will see this teepee like structure. The lever on the right will close and open the floor of this structure. Leave the floor closed. Now lower the chair and head back towards the elevator. Take the middle exit, down through 27, and make your way across the island to 21 continuing down the stairs to 35.
At 35, there are a pair of beached seal like creatures. Around the backside of the rocks where they are sitting is another marble. Continue along the passage to 34, there is a pool with another marble in it. If you turn the dial on the bottom-right of the pool, water will flow into the pool to make the silhouette of an animal.
Continue down the ladders to get to 40. The sub that you lowered from 39 should be here. The controls in the sub are identical to those of the tram, except that the go level is to the right and there is a slider along the bottom of the controls. This slider determines whether you will go left or right when you get to a junction.
Follow the tracks to location 33. Climb the stairs here and you will get to a room that has five levers. These levers control whether the docking rings are extended or not. If the rings are not extended, then the you cannot get to that dock with your sub. You will want to raise all of the levers. Now return to the sub.
Take the sub to 38. This is a schoolhouse. Along the walls are the letters of the Riven alphabet. The important thing here is just to the left of the door. It is a nifty game: there are two men dangling from ropes and a shark waiting below to eat them. Every time you turn the crank, a random number is spun in the window below and the man whose turn it is drops that many notches on the rope. First one to twenty loses.
This game lets you learn Riven numbers. You can easily pick up the values of the first ten numbers.
Now, notice that the multiples of five are just the values one through four rotated by ninety degrees. Riven numbers are base five: The first digit is placed in a square normally, the second digit is placed at right angles to that number. Subsequent digits are placed in new squares to the left. To read the numbers, you take the rotated number, multiply it by five, and then add it to the non-rotated number. See the example for seventeen above. If you have more than one digit, then you multiply the left total by twenty-five and add it to the right total. For example, Ghen’s world he called: The left value is nine, the right value is eight. The total is (9*25+8) which is two hundred thirty-three. Now that you know Riven numbers, you can translate the numbers you found in Ghen’s journal.
Anyway, now that you can count, return to the sub and head to 42. When you exit the sub, walk into the teepee area and pull the handle on the far side. This will lower a bar down to the ground. You can step into the middle of the area and grab the bar and ride up to the top. Once up here, use the button to the right of the door to open the cell. Once inside the cell at 32, lift up the drain in the floor and click there. This will raise a hidden switch that opens a secret door in the wall. Go through this door.
The passageway you enter is completely dark. Eventually, you will get to a seaview at 36. There is a light here that you can turn on by clicking it. As you walk back along the passage, there are more lights that you can turn on -- they were hidden by the darkness. Turn around again and you will see the side door that leads to 37 this time down. Head towards 37.
37 contains a circle of stones that need to be lowered in exactly the right order. Each of the marbles that you saw earlier in the game were associated with one of the animals depicted on the stones. The number of the back of the marble determines the order to push the tablets in. Here are the pictures of the five stones that you need to push:
These stones are located in the following locations: Facing the exit door, the 6th stone from the left, the 1st stone from the left; turn to the right, 2nd stone from the left, turn to the right, 7th stone from the left, 4th stone from the left. This will open a shelf straight ahead that contains a linking book. Use the book to link to Tay.
Part VIII: Tay
You arrive in Tay at 64. This is the cover picture for the Riven box, in case you hadn’t noticed. There doesn’t seem to be anything to do here, so return to the linking boot at 63. You will be ambushed and imprisoned by the rebels here. They will take you to a room at 65 where you will meet someone that brings you back the prison book and Catherine’s journal. The important piece of information in the journal is the combination to the telescope that you saw back at the start of the game in location 2. It is a series of five Riven numbers and the combination is different every game. After you have taken the journal, your captor returns with a linking book to return to to 37.
(Side note: Now that you have the combination to the telescope, you can go to it and break the fissure. Doing so before you have captured Ghen will cause Atrus to be summoned and captured and Ghen will escape Riven.)
When you have returned to 37, head towards location 4. Note that to get through the secret door at 32 you will have to lift the lever on the right side of the screen. You can also exit this upper area by going towards 43 where you can lower a ladder to have permanent access between the upper and lower levels of the village area.
Part IX: Generator Island
You are now back in the rotating room at 4. Rotate the room so that an exit towards 7 is available. You should have raised the stairs by now (using the lever at 9) so you have access to the generator’s roof at 11 now. Head up to 11.
At 11, head towards the device in the center of the dome. There is a grid, twenty-five holes square and six marbles along the right side. The grid is divided up into five regions that are the same regions depicted on the Map Island map. What you need to do is locate the five linking domes; use the Map Island map to determine where on the grid the dome is located; determine what the color of the dome is by using the viewfinder located near each dome and then place the marble for that dome in the grid.
Or just look at the diagram below for the proper placement of the gems. Using text mode coordinates, assuming that the lower-left corner is (0,0), then the red marble goes at (8,8), the orange at (5,3), the green at (15,24), the blue at (21,24) and the purple at (1,21). Now head back, pull the lever down and push the white button. You know you’ve done it right if you hear a drilling like sound after pushing the white button. This now gives power to all of the linking book domes.
Now, return to the inside of the dome (via location 6). This can be done by pushing the button at location 3 three times. Head to the lower level of the dome and exit (heading towards 14) and go to location 13. Push the button against the wall and the floor will descend to the lowest level. This will allow you to get to the linking book dome at 15.
To use the linking book domes. Nearby each dome is a dome viewer. For the dome at 15, the viewer is right in front of the dome. For other domes, it is always nearby. (The dome at 51 deserves special mention; the viewer is hidden in a passage that is blocked when the door to the room containing the dome is open.) To get access to the dome, you need to hit the button on the viewer just before the dome’ color symbol appears. You can always tell what that symbol is by watching the pictures in the viewer. There is always a short pause on the dome’s color symbol and it is always highlighted. You will have to anticipate the symbol some. Now, head to the dome and set the five sliders to the five numbers that you found in Ghen’s journal and push the button. Then use the book to link. You can push the button at the base of the bookstand to exit the dome.
Go into the dome at 15 and link to Age 233; where Ghen is hiding.
Part X: Age 233
You arrive here, at location 66, in a cage. (Side note: locations 66 through 76 are all in this room.) Turn around until you see a button just outside the cage. This button is located in the direction of 75. This will call Ghen to the chamber. He gives you a long speech about how he has changed; takes the prison book from you when he notices that you have recovered it; is about to use it when he gets suspicious and then asks that you go first.
If you remember from reading Atrus’s journal, the prison book is a one man prison; if a second person uses the book, then the first is released. So go ahead and enter the prison book. Ghen will quickly follow releasing you from the prison and entrapping himself in. You are now free to explore the room.
Locations 67 through 71 are linking books that link to the following locations (respectively): 60, 25, 57, 15, and 51. Location 72 is a generator for making power to these linking books. The slider turns it on and off. The power is on if the red window below the lever glows. 73 is a writing table with Ghen’s newest book. 74 is a doorway leading outside. Unfortunately, there is no way to open it. 75 is a lever that opens the cage. 76 is a stairwell that descends down to Ghen’s bedroom at 77. Take that stairwell down.
Inside his bedroom, on the nightstand, is Ghen’s personal journal. More importantly, next to the journal is a sphere that when clicked will play five tones that are either ‘dings’, ‘cranks’ (like a wrench), or ‘clanks’ and this combination is different every game. Make a note of the tones that you hear from the device.
Return to 69 and link through that book. (The linking book has but one square on the cover.)
Part XI: Catherine’s Island
You arrive at Catherin’s Island, at 78. Head down the path to the building where there is an elevator. The device against the back wall is the lock for the cage. Click on the pedals to duplicate the five tones that the device at 77 made and flip the lever. This will open the cage. You will rise up to the top level where Catherine will greet you and congradulate you. She will tell you to return to the telescope and open the fissure.
Head back to the linking globe at 78, link back to Ghen’s world and then link to 15 using the book at 70 (the book with five squares on the cover).
Part XII: Generator Island
Head to location 2. Look at the left leg of the telescope. There is a device in the support that prevents the telescope from dropping beneath a certain level. Remove that support. Then click on the cover in the center of the telescope. Key in the combination from Catherine’s journal (numbering the buttons from one to five, left to right), then click on the handle to open the cover. Now look at the button on the right side of the telescope railing. Twist the handle around the button until it is pointing down, and then push the button until the telescope breaks through the glass covering the fissure.
The fissure breaks, Catherine and Atrus are reunited, and in a fit of madness, they throw you into the fissure. (It makes much more sense when you watch the ending.)
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