The 7th Guest
First posted on 25 September 1997. Last updated on 25 February 2006.
In the dawn of the CD-ROM era, a little known company named Trilobyte sets off to develop a software that aims to harness the capacity of the CD-ROM to deliver the multimedia capability of the home computer. The end result is the market hit called The 7th Guest. With its incredible graphics and sound effects, The 7th Guest is considered to be the “killer app” that heralds in the market for…
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One of my favorite parts is when you are in the catacombs and you decide to quit stauf yells COMEBACK!!!
it was also cool that they included a small vhs documentary with the game…
too bad no company makes any good adventure games anymore oh and to the people having problems installing on win 2000/XP hit start/run then type cmd
that will open a dos promp after that get your CDs in and type E: (or what ever your cd drive letter is) then install
PLEASE HELP ME, I HAVE THE 11TH HOUR AND WANT THE 7TH GUEST ALSO, I AM HAVING TROUBLE PUTTING IT ONTO A NEW COMPUTER, DOES ANYONE KNOW OF A WAY AROUND THIS, I AM BUSTING TO PLAY. PLEASE HELP!!!
I remember when I first came across this game as a kid. I begged for weeks on end until my parents finally caved and bought it for me. Little did any of us know at the time that we would have to jump through hoops to get the sound working properly, but after we did, WOO.
What a game, the puzzles kept you thinking and playing for hours at a time. I had friends that would come over, and we would sit in the dank, dark basement playing, hoping that something in the game would freak us out enough to quit playing (which of course never happened). There were even times that my father helped me crack whatever puzzle I happened to be on at the time.
Looking where I’m at in my gaming career now, and then thinking back to The 7th Guest, nothing quite compares. I’ve played countless mystery/puzzle games, but nothing (not even the sequel) ever came close.
Top notch writing and development from Trilobyte, I was throughouly impressed with them for years after this title. And when it was needed, the Virgin ‘help department’ was there to lend me clues to those pesky puzzles. To top it all off, it was one of the first games I ever remember coming on disk, and the drive to push the medium to the forefront of the pc gaming industry made this a smash.
I’ve still got my original copy of the game sitting somewhere in the house my parents still live at, but unfortunately, I can’t seem to think of a way to get the game running on my WinXP system.
It’s a shame, I’d love to take Mr. Stauf out for a spin yet again.
Hi, Im currently living in Gibraltar and am very interested in getting a copy of the 7th guest. Unfortunately it seems that it is no longer available. Any ideas on how to get a copy??
i love the game! its my absolute favorit
I love this game but cant find it anywere .
great game is there any way to down load on the net
Give me a break! Look at the games that were on computers at the time. No one even came close to the gameplay or tech. that the 7th Guest did. I’ve seen people that were scared by the game and would still play the game. It impressed people and isn’t that what a computer game is suppose to do?
In this review, it is clear that the writer did not like this game very much. It is sad because THE 7TH GUEST is very impressive. I love puzzle games, but generally they just consist in very technically simple productions. In THE 7TH GUEST, you are immerse in an “Agatha-Christie-like” novel. Have you read “ten little negros” ? Of course, someone can say that there is more FMV than really playing parts, but the real goal is the puzzles, the story is the base of the game, but you play for the puzzles. It is clearely written in the manual. So if you play this game only as an adventure game, you are in the wrong way… THE 7TH GUEST is an atmospheric game, and it is a real success in this way. You begin the game, looking on this spooky mansion, you take a look on the first screen in this house, hearing THE 7TH GUEST main theme written by the great Fatman and the magic begun. You are not on a game but IN this game. The music is very complex, composed to be completely integrated in a sequence with particular guests talking and acting. The graphics are amazing and you explore the mansion looking for new rooms to look at like a child playing with a new toy.
Ok, ok, “the acting falls somewhere between horrid and laughable”, but personnaly (maybe the actors did not want this second degree effect) this B movie feeling is exactly what I was expecting from a game like this, over-played like old movies on 30’ years. And as it is said in the previous review, the script is very impressive, so you are always waiting to see what happened next. You play the puzzles to see what happened next. Of course, the trick of the stick and the carrot is as old as the world, but it’s ok finally. Puzzles are interesting and you want to solve them, you will be able to discover another element of the bloody tragedy that happened in this spooky mansion and to find an answer to the first question of the hero : What am I, what am I doing here and why (the three basic questions of manking afterall)?!?
All is beautiful in this game : graphics, smooth animations, and this music is bewitching. The 25 minutes Original Soundtrack found in the second CD is by itself a good reason to buy the game, just to hear the Team Fat at work… The puzzles are beautiful and nice to play, difficult, and you are very proud of yourself when you managed to finish one of them. Of course, the original MS-DOS and Win95 releases of the game read very slowly the FMV. But with a Win95/98/NT patch released by Trilobyte and found on the web, FMV are faster and can be cut by a right mouse button click. The interface is very smooth and simple, and as I am french, the only real problem that I found on this game is that Trilobyte never release any subtitled version, the beginning is very hard for strangers to the schakespearian-speaking.
If you want to see a real bad game with a negative ever-increasing of FMV born from those years when video-game market discover CD-ROM, just look at FANTASMAGORIA, 4 CDs of blue screen acting from bad actors.
But to come back to THE 7TH GUEST, make your own idea. And if you like puzzle-games, try THE 7TH GUEST. We are in 2003, and I show the game to a friend of mine searching for a puzzle-game with an original atmosphere. I have no news from my CDs since 2 weeks. I think he liked it, isn’t it ?
It is as simple as that : there are some games that have this little bit of magic that make them attractive, no matter why! You launch the game and next you can not stop, you are captive. THE 7TH GUEST has this little bit of magic, even if actors are sometime laughable, even if the story is sometime confuse… Just try it !
PS: Sorry if my english is sometime bad. Hey, just write to my old teachers!
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Super music from Mike Kapitan! Super game!
Good to hear that, thebigba.
to igor hardy, hell yes that patch worked wonders… i can move so much faster now load quicker,…