If you're in the market for a good, solid freebie - and I assume you are, given that you've already read the headline - then you've come to the right place. Myst developer Cyan Worlds' enjoyable sci-fi mystery adventure Obduction is currently free on GOG until tomorrow, 1st June.

Obduction released back in 2016, and is very much a spiritual successor to Cyan Worlds' seminal Myst and Riven series, featuring the same kind of low-key, open-ended meandering and oblique puzzle solving, in a surreal, strikingly designed alien world.

And the good news is that it does a lot of stuff right, with a strong story premise (which I won't spoil), a pitch-perfect atmosphere - absolutely nailing the sense of wonder and isolation - and conundrums that are, for the most part, logical and immensely satisfying once you finally tease out a solution from the subtle environmental clues. Do be warned, however, that the whole thing comes to a crashing halt about two thirds of the way through with a truly godawful sequence of trial-and-error puzzles that constantly force you between locations, leading to endless loading screens and an increasing sense of despair.

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Myst, one of the most internationally renowned and often baffling adventure games of all time, is getting itself a 25th Anniversary edition, thanks to a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign earlier this year. They asked for $247,500 and got $2,810,127 from backers, so it seems safe to say that people still really like Myst.

Ahead of the release of the fancy 25th Anniversary Edition of Myst, GOG's not only offering up a bunch of discounts on Myst, Uru and Riven titles but also recently became the only place online where you can pick up copies of Myst 3: Exile and Myst 4: Revelation digitally.

In order to celebrate all these lovely things happening all at once, the folks at GOG and Cyan Worlds have gotten together with Jelly Deals to offer up yet another giveaway for you lovely people.

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