It’s difficult to judge a game like The 7th Guest with the benefits of hindsight. Although critically acclaimed upon its release in 1993, the game is part of a genre that simply doesn’t exist anymore. Full motion video (FMV) of live actors is now only used by games that revel in their cheesiness, and the allure of 3D graphics, which at the time couldn’t be rendered in real time, is now entirely mundane. Still, for many, The 7th Guest stands alongside classics like Myst, and this new version does a great job of showing why.
Games Asylum: "[...] the adventure classic is about to grace Nintendo hardware for the first time ever – a conversion is showing for release on the Switch eShop next week (6th April,) published by Liron Barzilai.
Rob Pitt writes: The 7th Guest is a cult classic puzzle game amongst older gamers like myself. It was one of the first CD-Rom games I owned for my PC back in 1993 and absolutely scared me to the point in which I couldn’t play it with the lights off and never had the courage to complete it at the time.
Looking back on this, after playing through it from beginning to end a few days ago, it seems very silly as it’s more cheesy than scary. However, the early ’90s was a different time, this sort of interactive FMV media was new and there was no internet to dilute young children from this sort of creepy experience.
To mark the 25th anniversary, Trilobyte Games teamed up with MojoTouch to touch up and re-release The 7th Guest on both Steam and GoG.
True - it was a lot less scary replaying it this weekend though. But, I wanted to get through it before I jumped into The 13th Doll, the fan-made sequel which was official endorsed by Trilobyte to use likenesses of the mansion and characters - it even has the original Henry Stauf actor in it!
We have a review of that coming soon as well.
A fan-made sequel for The 7th Guest (The 13th Doll) which has been in development for over 15 years has a confirmed release date this October.
