I was so into Myst as a kid I even read the novels. Book of Atrius was decent for what it was, as I remember it anyway, but I really loved the Book of D’ni. To this day I will still sometimes use the name of one of the major characters from that book as a screen name.
It’s shocking to me how little I actually remember of it all now, but hot damn do some of the images you posted push that nostalgia button in my brain.
Sure! And yep, there’s three of em (plus apparently a fourth that was never finished). It’s been roughly 2 decades since I’ve read them () so I’m hesitant to sing their praises too much, but I can confidently say that as novels they are far better than I would expect any book-based-on-a-video-game has any right to be. They definitely deepen the universe and the lore, as you might imagine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myst_Reader