I played a few of those Myst games
Ingenius puzzles that make you think in bizarre creative ways- not really useful ways in reality but in ways that are skewed and usually self consistant to the game's universe...
The games took unusual genius to create...
Very impressive game series, and some of the puzzles are absolutely devilish...
My mom thought shoot em up games were silly... I jokingly suggested that they should make a game that you go around planting flowers peacefully just for her... I later bought her a copy of myst, she liked it...
I would certainly say that Myst is a game that is high quality and most definitely gender neutral in its appeal...
<Admits to looking up hints a few times>