Cyan Worlds

Cyan, Inc., doing business as Cyan Worlds, is an American video game developer and publisher based in Mead, Washington. Brothers Rand and Robyn Miller founded it in 1987, working at first from their parents' basement in Spokane and making children's adventure games with HyperCard, such as The Manhole. In 1993 it released Myst, a pre-rendered adventure game that sold more than six million copies and was the best-selling PC game ever until The Sims passed it in 2002. Sequels followed, including Riven in 1997, after which Robyn left the company, and the online game Uru. The company later released the Kickstarter-funded games Obduction in 2016 and Firmament in 2023. As of 2024 it is described as the oldest surviving independent game studio in the United States.