Myst devs Cyan Worlds show off prototype for Project Anglerfish, a canned entry in the noted long-time RPS favourite series

We famously emotion a spot of Myst present astatine RPS. Always have. So, naturally, Cyan Worlds deciding to bust retired a teaser for a caller crippled successful the Mystverse that's since been cancelled caught our attention.

"Over a twelvemonth ago, we spent astir 4 months processing a caller prototype for a crippled successful the Myst universe," originative manager Eric Anderson said to present the YouTube video connected the canned game, which was codenamed Project Anglerfish. "What we're astir to amusement you is simply a teaser trailer for that prototype, that was meant for steadfast eyes only."

Development manager Hannah Gamiel added that "for a assortment of reasons" the game, which is nary longer successful progressive improvement and won't beryllium released successful its existent form, "couldn't determination guardant astatine the time", but that it's being shared arsenic Cyan are arrogant of their team's work.

The teaser begins with a bloke successful a stylish greenish cardigan enlisting a guildsman to hunt a mansion for a book, which indispensable enactment closed for mysterious reasons. Cue things getting gradually much and much sinister arsenic the puzzling goes via worldly successful the mansion breaking, weird tentacle-like growths forming, and the book-requester getting much and much unhinged successful his chatter astir needing you to fetch that tome. By the end, he's full-on screaming astir ages and nasty deaths, successful a mode that suggests he's possibly a spot excessively into this full speechmaking lark. Perhaps helium should effort a hobby little apt to permission him large and frustrated, similar playing video games.

As for what Cyan Worlds person been up to since they abandoned this shouty man, Anderson said they're "still hard astatine enactment connected caller games and experiences successful the Myst universe" and program to stock info connected those erstwhile they can.

Notably, Cyan laid disconnected 12 radical - astir fractional of their squad - past March. The workplace said astatine that constituent that their fig 1 precedence was to "secure financing for our adjacent project".