Myst IV: Revelation is a Point and Click, Adventure, Exploration, Atmospheric, Casual, and Single-player video game offered by Ubisoft Montreal. The game serves as the fourth title in the series of Myst and offers similar gameplay to the previous releases by introducing new features. While inspecting the world, the player views the surroundings from a first-person perspective.

During the gameplay, the player takes on the role of an unnamed protagonist as a stranger who explores different worlds called Ages. The player needs to solve many puzzles, reveal numerous secrets, and to find clues of each age. The player can roam freely in every world and can rotate the view in any direction. The game comes up with Zip mode that allows the player to skip nodes and move to advance.

All the actions and movements of the player depend on the cursor that moves as a hand on the screen, and the player clicks to act; for example, to zoom in, the cursor contains a magnifying glass where the player needs to hold the cursor. The player can push, pull, and tap on items by the use of the cursor. The player needs to solve the puzzles to get to advance through the gameplay.

The game allows the player to utilize a camera and capture images to get a review of the clues and important items and can get these images at any time of the gameplay. The player can review all gathered information at any stage when requires. The player can reveal the mysteries by using an amulet that possesses the ability to flashback the moments attached to the objects. The game has core features, such as Zip Mode, Different Ages, A Camera, An Amulet, Several Puzzles, and First-person Perspective.