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===What is Uru?===
''Uru'' is the spinoff series of ''Myst''. It co-exists with the ''Myst'' games, but has its own purpose and theme. It also has a complicated publishing history.

''Uru'' was initially published in 2003 as a single player game as ''[[Uru: Ages Beyond Myst]]''. An online MMO called ''Uru Live'' never got out of beta.

Two small expansions were released for Uru: the first was ''[[Uru: To D'ni|To D'ni]]'', and the second was ''[[Uru: The Path of the Shell|The Path of the Shell]]''. Uru and its expansions were collected and sold under ''[[Uru: Complete Chronicles]]''. This is the release you want to look for to play the single player version.

Cyan released some server code to fans under the name ''[[Myst Online: Uru Live#Untìl Uru|Untìl Uru]]'', and fans ran shards (independent servers) from 2004 to 2007.

The online game service GameTap resurrected ''Uru'' (with Cyan) in 2007 as ''[[Myst Online: Uru Live#GameTap|Myst Online: Uru Live]]'' (MOUL). It ran for a year, then closed. MOUL has some additional content compared to the single player game. Content that appeared in the expansions for the single player game is presented differently in MOUL.

Cyan continues to maintain a server for ''Myst Online: Uru Live'', which it calls ''[[Myst Online: Uru Live#Myst Online: Uru Live (again)|Myst Online: Uru Live again]]'' (MOULa). They don't support it besides keeping it running, nor has there been any new canon story. However, fans have been running independent shards of ''Myst Online'', as well as have been developing some content that Cyan has begun to add to the core version of MOULa.

''Note: Uru is often the term that fans use to refer to the fandom itself as well.''