Faust

The game has generic features of post-Myst adventure games. Players pass many 360 panoramic screens, and by clicking on objects and manipulating items, they can progress through the level. The aim of each of the seven levels is to reveal secrets about the sins each person has committed. Once this is achieved, a cutscene will play and the player will commence the next level.

The player assumes the role of an elderly African American man named Marcellus Faust. He finds himself in an abandoned amusement park called Dreamland where he meets a mysterious man named Mephistopheles. He explains that he and "the boss" are arguing over what should happen to seven souls, and tells you that your job is to arbitrate their cases - to look over the evidence and decide if they are guilty or innocent. Through the journeys of the seven characters, the game aims to reveal insights and observations about human nature.

At the very end it is revealed that Faust is there to officiate a pact between park owner Theodore Moore and Mephisto, resulting in Theodore becoming a demon and Mephisto gaining freedom. Faust is given the chance to take over Theodore's place as the keeper of the park, or sell it.

Arxel Tribe began development of Faust in late 1998. The game was a collaboration between Anne Carrière Multimedia, Cryo Interactive and Arxel, and production work was split between Paris and Ljubljana, Slovenia. Stephen Carrière, son of Anne Carrière and co-founder of Arxel Tribe, served as writer and creative director of the project. Faust was devised as one entry in Cryo Interactive's series of literature- and myth-based titles, begun by the company after its success with Atlantis: The Lost Tales.

Arxel's game consequently followed the series' overarching design formula, in which "the content was definitely more important than the technology", according to Cryo's Stephane Ressot. Faust co-writer Béryl Chanteux likewise argued that Arxel's goal was not to make "the game for the game": she reported that Faust's "cultural content" was its driving force. By December 1998, the title was set to launch in October 1999.

Faust failed commercially. John Walker of Rock, Paper, Shotgun wrote that the game "was an enormous flop, selling fewer than 10,000 copies". In the United Kingdom, it was among a string of bombs by Cryo Interactive: the company's entire line sold only 42,000 units in the region during 2000, which led it to cease its British publishing operations. Market research firm PC Data estimated Faust's North American retail sales during 2000 as 4,500 copies, of which 4,429 derived from December.

During 2001, the firm tallied another 9,794 retail sales of the game in North America. Despite the title's poor sales, de Fondaumière was nevertheless pleased with Faust's critical reception, and he said that the game drew a cult fan following. Metacritic reported that Faust received "mixed or average reviews" from critics.

During the first years after Faust's release, Eurogamer's John Bye recalled it as "one of the best adventure games of 1999" and a "truly excellent" title. EXE that Faust was "very dear to all of us" at Arxel Tribe, despite its commercial performance. Adventure Gamers later named it the 94th-best adventure game released by 2011. The site's staff lauded Faust's uniqueness and depth, and singled out its soundtrack for praise.

In 2018, John Walker offered a less positive lookback at Faust, as he disliked Cryo Interactive's entire catalogue of releases. Nevertheless, he argued that Faust was somewhat superior to Cryo's and Arxel Tribe's other output, and called it "not all that dreadful."