Press one of these buttons and turn around to find an extended pathway to the building where you can map out the islands. The purpose of this area is to find the location of the five marble domes located on each of the islands. At the top, walk forward to the map puzzle. Plateau Islandįollow the pathway to the elevator and press the button to go up.

Go down the path until you get to a Maglev that will take you to Plateau Island. Go to the door with the blue button next to it and press the button, then go out the opposite back door. Read the book on the table, find the five numbers in it and write them down. When you get to a silver ball with holes in it, look up and climb through the fan vent. Hit this lever and return to the double doors. Look for a gray lever on the right of the bridge. Follow the path revealed on the right to go outside again. Go through the double doors and shut them behind you. Get out of the pipe you are in and follow the mountain pass over the fence to the double doors. Keep clicking through the darkness until you see daylight. Go into the building and down the ladder. Turn to the window again, hit the switch on the right to the up position and turn the lever on the right to the up position. Turn the big wheel first, then look left and switch the lever where the single pipe switches into two. Now go towards the cylindrical building and up the stairs, leading to some switches with a window looking into the building. Turn the lever so it is in line with the middle pipe. Crater IslandĬlimb down the ladder and make your way out to the switch in the middle of the lake. Get in the cart, hit the lever and proceed to Crater Island. Keep to the path of the right and you should come to a hole in the ground with a cart. Then turn around and go through the hole in the rocks. Touch it and make note of the symbol that is revealed and the sound that it makes. Get out of the Maglev and towards what looks like a ball inside the rocks. Once it gets there, get in and hit the lever on the left to turn around and the switch in the middle to go forward. Hit the blue button to summon the Maglev. Leave through the large door that the switch near the view portal opened. Hit the lever next to the portal and continue down the tunnel. Look around in this room and find the red and gold view portal. Go through the door on the left midway through the tunnel. Now you can go away from the gold room across the bridge to the other part of the island. Hit the button three more times, this will help you later.

Now return back the way you came to the first button which rotates the room. Follow the catwalk some more and you will find a third lever and pipe. Go across the bridge to the large domed building.įollow the catwalk through the domed building until you come to another lever and a pipe. Now you should see the gold room with a passage leading across a bridge. Go back to the first rotation button again and hit it two more times. Go towards this door, turn around, and flip the switch you see. You should now be facing a passage to a back door on the right. Flip the switch on your left and return to the first rotation button. These kinds of levers power various items on the islands of Riven, so turn it to point to the other pipe and turn back towards the gold room. In the second cave there is a lever on a pipe. You should be back in the gold room again with a passage leading to another cave. Turn around and down the stairs on the other side of the hill. Hit the button four times and you will be facing a dark wall with a peephole. The button to the right of the entrance rotates the room. The room has two doors and five passageways leading from it.

Now go up the stairs and turn left where you will see a gold room with image viewers in the form of beetles. Leave the cage and look over the side of the cliff on your right.

Riven walkthrough