Riven Review: As Riveting As I Remember

I first played Riven in the 90s as a clueless kid completely unaware of what sort of game it was. It came in one of those chonky retro PC boxes with a whopping five CD-ROMs, and something about it just called to me. We didnt have the internet back then (the world did, my house just didnt) and I sure as hell didnt solve it all in one playthrough. Every now and then Id boot it up, try and progress, get frustrated, quit, and then return a month later to chip away at the mystery some more. That was how we did gaming back then.