This is a walkthrough, hints, tips, and solutions book for the video game "Riven". There are puzzle by puzzle solutions to each of the games mysteries. It is written in a journal type way from the point of view of the character. The story is that of a person uses a book to be transported to a world known as 'Riven', however the player ends up in prison and must escape and find out what is happening and how to stop it. There are many gray-scale screenshots, maps of the various islands, and greenish-blue illustrations of animals on many of the books pages. Besides the guided walkthrough there is also a section on 'The Solutions' to the puzzles located throughout the game. After this there is a quick step by step section that tells what the player needs to do to accomplish all the events in the game.