All the Myst games I remember involve you rescuing people trapped in books/prisons. The first game is rescuing the dude that writes the books, second is his wife, fourth one was his daughter I think? His sons are also trapped, but for good reasons. It kinda runs in the family.
I think the nature of it as a puzzle game means you kinda have to do everything alone. Seems like it would make a really terrible movie, but I don't recall them being super sexist. It has been a while, though.