Myst/Any%

Routing

The path followed by all three games does not differ between any of the three versions, since all three games take less than two minutes to finish in Any%. Time begins, technically, when you enter the book, though load times are ignored for the run, so really, time begins when the player spawns on the island.

Deleting .movs in Myst disqualifies the run. (correct me if I’m wrong, though)

• Sunken Gear: flip the marker switch.
• Planetarium/Star Imager/Dentist’s: Flip the marker switch in front.
• Spaceship: Flip the marker switch in front.
• Generator: Flip the marker switch in front.
• Clock Tower Control Box: Enter the time 2:40 and hit the button.

-As a minor nuance, in realMyst and realMyst: Masterpiece, the animations for the wheels can overlap, so a half second, at most, can be saved by hitting small-big-small-big and big for six, instead of hitting small-small-big-big and big for six.

• Clock Tower: Flip the marker switch in front.
• Log Cabin: Flip the marker switch in front.
• Ship Model Pool: Flip the marker switch in front.
• Marker Switch at the spawn: Flip the marker switch twice and collect the white page.
• Library: Enter the fireplace inside the library, hit the red button on the side, and enter pattern 158.

- realMyst - click-drag works to hit multiple buttons, so plan a button path to utilize that as much as possible.

- realMyst: Masterpiece- you can click open the book the moment you see it through the bars.

• Enter the green book.
• Run to Atrus and hand him the white page.

-Myst- When you hand the page over the Atrus, flip sight to the left side and flip back. He will be gone and that’s time, since you no longer have player control to speed up the cutscene.

-realMyst- Hold click on Atrus to hand the page over frame-perfect. Time is when he’s holding the page.

-realMyst: Masterpiece- Spam click is the best you got. Sorry. Time is when he’s holding the page.

According to the current definition of any%, skipping the marker switches and getting trapped with Atrus counts as a loss and not an any% run. Maybe a Worst%, at best.