The 7th Guest: 25th Anniversary Edition Reviews

if you like to solve puzzles like I do, then this is the game to play

Played this when I was a kid on our 486 with a CD ROM drive. Graphics were amazing a the time. Nice to relive that through this remaster.

I do not understand why this game is well-thought of. The story is thin, the exploration is unrewarding and the puzzles are just downright awful. They do not relate to the story in any way. Most importantly, most of them aren't even fun puzzles. This whole game is a letdown, from start to finish. It is also buggy as heck on Steam Deck. Stay away from this over-praised game.

awesome game , glad my uncle got me into this game in 90s still scary as hell. and with the anniversary edition.

Initially released in 1993, the 7th Guest is an interactive movie/point and click adventure game with heavy use of full motion video and pre-rendered backgrounds. Developed by Trilobyte Games, published by Virgin Interactive, and now MojoTouch, this version was released on Steam in 2019. Alongside games like Myst, 7th guest was important in the use of CDs as a medium for game distribution. After a brief intro describing the path of a drifter turned murderer and eventually toy maker, the player gains control, in a first-person perspective, of a person exploring a strange mansion, filled with puzzles, secret passages, a maze, and ghosts of previous guests. Using the mouse to control the movement and interacting with the environment and puzzles, the player slowly gains access to cutscenes to stitch together the story and pick up clues to complete the puzzles. Ranging from straight forward to incredibly obtuse, the puzzles block paths and progression, but are presented in a way that allow for repetition in case of failure without consequence and exploration. Revolutionary for its use of not only CDs, full motion video but also 3D pre-rendered backgrounds, this version contains a “making of” short video, the original script and novel, both in epub format, soundtrack, deleted scenes, the original manual, and the Stauf files, that bring more background information for the game. All these files are available on the “extras” folder in the game’s folder. Some aspects of this game look and feel (even though it’s a completely subjective point) dated with today’s standards of modern adventure games, but once we consider the age of the game and its importance to the ever-evolving gaming media, 7th guest is a game I highly recommend. If you enjoyed this review, I would like to invite you to visit [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44722081/] [u]Backlog log[/u] [/url] my curator page for more recommendations and reviews.