Riven Walkthrough

Continue up the stairs and begin to familiarize yourself with the island if you take a right from the entrance and work your way through the passage. You will find a Wahrk shrine. This shrine has a secret entrance that can be accedes by pressing a button that is on top of the right light. Pressing this button will open the fishes mouth that has a small elevator.

Going up the elevator and going down the pathway you will find a rotating dome on this dome is a character that is yellow it is important to remember this character for a puzzle found later in the game. Continuing down the path you will find the throne room. Sit in this chair and move the switch to your left, which will take you to a great view of the village looking down you will see the lake, now press the right switch will close a door that needs to be closed to allow you to have access to a room later in the game.

Next exit the fish where you will see a small girl who falls as she runs away. Continuing down that path and taking all rights you will come to the entrance of the village were if you look closely you see a man working on a submarine on the top left side of the screen in addition you will see a small child who is playing, scared the man will take this child and run away. Continue down the path until you get to one of the small houses in the village. Follow the path to the left of this house that will lead you to the submarine. Lower this submarine into the water. By pressing the switch to the left.

Exit the village head back to the entrance leading back to the tram. From this entrance head down the stairs and follow the path all the way down to the submarine. Remember to also look at the eye that you will find during the way to the submarine.

Once in the submarine familiarize yourself with the switches. There are a total of three switches the one to the far right makes the submarine move forward the switch in the middle will turn the submarine around and finally the switch in the bottom middle will allow the submarine to know to go left or right when at a cross section on the tracks.

To begin press the forward switch that takes you to a cross section, take the track to the right. This will take you to a location to that you can exit the submarine. Once you have exited the submarine follow the path until you reach 5 switches move the three switches in the down position to the up position. Once these switches have been moved return to the submarine. Back in the submarine turn it around and head forward until back at the cross road now take a left to head to the school. In the school play the hang man game to get an understanding on how the D’ni number system. Once you have familiarized yourself with this exit out of the school to return back to the submarine. Turn the submarine around and once back at the cross section on the tracks take a left to get to the trapeze. Before going up this ensure that you have gone to the school as once you have gone up this you will not be able to go back down to the submarine. To go up the trapeze pull the one chain to move down the other. Use this to go up to the top.

Once at the top you will find what appears to be a prison with a man inside sitting. To the right of this cage is a switch that can be used to open the prison wall. However, when entering this room you will notice that the man has disappeared. Looking at the floor you will notice a grate. Open the grate and pull the switch within the grate to open the secret door.

After reading Catherine’s book and then looking at the other (don’t enter the other book as it is a trap and the game will end) the lady will re-enter the room and give you the portal back to the Moiety Gateway. 

Once at the boiler you will be faced with a puzzle, begin by going into the middle of the lake and changing the switch to be in the middle. Next head towards the boiler and follow the path to the left. Once at the main controls first turn off the heat, next use the switch to direct the power towards the bridge, then switch the switch to direct power towards the water control and finally move the wheel to empty the water.

If done properly you should be able to go into the boiler through the hole in the ground and out the tunnel. Once through the tunnel look down and follow the pathway to a closed door with a hatch next to it. Open the doors and go into the room. Once in the room close the doors behind you to reveal a secret entrance. Go down the secret entrance to the right as you are walking down the pathway switch the lever on the right hand side of the pathway to turn off the ventilation system. Once this has been switched go back to the room you just came from that has the bean machine. Now that you have switched the lever you will be able to look up and crawl through the ventilation system. Which will get you into Gehn’s lab.

In Gehn’s lab make sure to make a note of the six symbols on page nine (like the ones on the Fire Marble Domes) and the five-figure D’ni numeric code on page 13 (the code for getting to the linking books inside the Fire Marble Dome. You will also notice an eye that will reveal another number. Once you have Explored the lab exit back through the pipe and head to the Golden Globe

In the Golden Globe make your way around the area until you reach the wheel. Rotate this wheel to extend the bridge. Once this has been done locate the lever next to the bridge that goes to the rotating room and switch the lever to move the bridge back into its up position. Next turn around and go to the other doorway where there is a hole in the pathway. Next to the doorway is a small button that when pressed will move up a small section of the missing pathway. Once this has been completed you will be unable to do anything additional in this area. Return to Gehn’s lab again through the ventilation system. 

Once back at Gehn’s lab go through the back door. Which is the door that does not have the blue-lit button in front of it. If the tram is not there return to the lab and press the blue button on the opposite door and then return back to the tram location. The tram will take you to the plateau island. 

1 = Crater Island
2 = Temple Island
3 = Plateau Island
4 = Jungle Island
5 = Prison Island

Once one of these buttons is pressed the island will have a liquid substance above it. Once one is selected turn around and you will notice a pathway has now been extended to the building in front of you. In this building you will see another section of the Map Table Puzzle. This section will allow you to distinguish more exactly to where the Marble dome is located on the island. 

Once you have completed obtaining all the needed information off of Plateau head back to the golden globe at the top of the golden globe you will find the Marble puzzle knowing the information that you have gathered on the plateau island you should be able to complete the marble puzzle.

Marble Puzzle Solution

Once completed successfully this will restore the power to all the Fire Marble Domes around Riven. Open any of the Marble Domes and enter the 5 D’ni numbers you have obtained from Gehn’s book (these are always different therefore if you have not obtained these you will need to go back to his lab on Crater Island and get them). Once you have successfully entered the number the dome will begin to rotate and a book will be uncovered. Using this book you will be transported into a cage where you will meet Gehn who will discuss his and Catherine’s situation. When he asks you to go first through the trapped book accept the offer and go through the book as once he follows you will be switched with him in places making him the trapped individual.

First located the switch on the side of the wall to remove the cage for access to the books. Then go down the small man hole leading to Gehn’s chamber here you will find a small ordainment clicking it will make a unique notice as it opens and then closes, remember this noise. It is extremely important to solving Catherine's Prison Door lock to free Catherine. This noise is unique each game therefore if you did not memorize this noise the first time you will need to restore an old saved game to hear the noise in Gehn's room  

Once you have opened the door you will meet Catherine, in a very quite voice (you may have to turn up the speakers) she will explain her situation and implore you to go back to the Telescope that you found at the beginning of the game and activate it using the code in her journal you should have obtained at The Moiety age. 

Once back at the telescope that you first saw at the beginning of the game. First open the manhole at the bottom using the code in Catherine's Journal. The code is in the D'ni format and should have a total of five numbers. In our case the number was 34545 keep in mind the number changes each time. To enter this number imagine the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 going across left to right to enter 34545 we pressed the 3 button, 4 button, 5 button, 4 button and then finally the 5 button. Once this is completed you should be able to use the had to pull the man hole open. 

Once the hole is open Lower the telescope as far down as possible using the lever to the right of the telescope. Once the telescope is close to the man hole you will notice it cannot move down any farther because of a small latch on the bottom left rail of the telescope. Looking down at this portion of the telescope you will notice the latch, remove the latch  and them move the telescope down further  to break the telescope and complete the game.