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It’s high time to invite the 7th Guest and the 11th Hour into GOG.com catalogue.

In the beginning of 1990’s, most games would fit on a couple floppies and CD-ROM was as widespread as a combination Mouse and VoIP Phone is today. However, one gaming company decided to do something utterly ridiculous: create a game with live actors, pre-rendered 3D environment, and orchestrated score, a game so big it would have to be sold on CD-ROM. The game they created, The 7th Guest, eventually sold more than 2 million copies and is considered by many the killer app that created a demand for CD-ROM drives.

The 7th Guest is a gothic thriller adventure set inside an eerie abandoned mansion of one Henry Stauf, an insane toymaker who decided to make the house full of twisted quests, bizarre puzzles, and deadly challenges. Bill Gates hailed it then "the new standard in interactive entertainment".
The thrilling sequel, The 11th Hour, follows the same path of terror, desolation, and grotesque logic but with even more advanced graphics, better cinematic sequences, and more in-game content.

Together, The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour, form an unsettling tale of horror and mystery that will send chills down your spine. Both games are coming soon to GOG.com for $9.99 each.

Will you accept the invitation to Henry Stauf’s cursed mansion?
What about the rest of their catalog?

They didn't just make those two games, you know.

(Rewrote my comment. I'm not a fan of these two games, sorry.)
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anjohl: I don't see how $9.99 for an almost 20 year old game is justifiable.

Let the flaming/de-repping commence.
I don't see how paying more than a nickel for Myst is either but I don't complain. :P
Post edited February 02, 2012 by Foxhack
It all comes down to how important the extras are to you. For example if you wanted the making of video, a VHS of that on eBay is $10 and up. Also wasn't the script only available by buying the strategy guide back when it came out?
all I can say is its about F#$%en time!
This is one of those times I get to say "holy crap insta-buy" and all that good stuff. Right up my alley, cheers!
Great news. I've got The 7th Guest already on CD, so I won't bother with that one, but The 11th Hour is wishlisted now.
My first reaction was "Awesome!", but then I saw the propose price. $9.99 for these games is unreasonable. I paid less for them when I found them in a CompUSA bargain bin 5 or 6 years ago. They're cute and they're fun (for those who like this kind of game), but they're low-tech puzzle games, not triple-A productions. They're more in the same league as games like Broken Sword which GoG sells for a much more reasonable $5.99. I'll eventually buy them, but I can wait for a 50% sale. At the regular price, I'd feel ripped off.
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anjohl: I don't see how $9.99 for an almost 20 year old game is justifiable.

Let the flaming/de-repping commence.
i hear you, but then again, you pay something for the game itself, a little something for GoG to get it to run on modern systems, to configure DOSBOX for you and testing it, for making it available for unlimited downloading, and a little something for the extras GoG had to dig up. it adds up.
Post edited February 02, 2012 by Fred_DM
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anjohl: I don't see how $9.99 for an almost 20 year old game is justifiable.

Let the flaming/de-repping commence.
I don't see it as being worth $10 either, but not because it's almost two decades old. There are plenty of early-to-mid 90s games that are easily worth $10 (the Dark Eye games at the very least).

My problem with the $10 tag is that it is just too superficial and short a game to be really worth $10. I did enjoy it while it lasted, but the game has zero replayability and I got through it in just a few days back when I played it.
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Fred_DM: i hear you, but then again, you pay something for the game itself, a little something for GoG to get it to run on modern systems, to configure DOSBOX for you and testing it, for making it available for unlimited downloading, and a little something for the extras GoG had to dig up. it adds up.
I think you're massively overstating the amount of work that goes into this. Anyone with reasonable experience with DOSBox will be able to configure a game to run automatically within 10-15 minutes, and experience with DOSBox-based GOG games has shown me that they are hardly subjected to wider testing.

The bandwidth costs per-user, per-game are minimal (although I suspect GOG, on the whole, pays a substantial amount), and the effort that goes into finding the extras is debatable, although this obviously varies from game to game.

I suspect from my own experience that the biggest chunk of the costs is the rights owner's fee.
Post edited February 02, 2012 by jamyskis
Hmm... I wonder if I should grab these when they come in sale. I've actually never player either of them, so I do have a gap in my culutural knowledge what comes to these two.
Where do I pre-order?
Yes I am willing to give you money ahead of time before a release because OMG! its both freaking games!
If I remember correctly, the real breakthrough for CD-ROM was "Rebel Assault" from Lucasarts, not the 7th Guest.
HOLY FUDGECAKES!! These are absolute classics for me..

I loved these back in the day although I haven't finished 7th guest (some puzzles are very difficult) and played even less of 11th Hour.
I own both in their original format and 11th Hour is a pain to get working properly in modern Windows.. so this will be an insta-buy for me.

Awesome stuff!
I didn't think I would ever see those. Great!
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flitzefisch: If I remember correctly, the real breakthrough for CD-ROM was "Rebel Assault" from Lucasarts, not the 7th Guest.
Hmm.. I think Myst and 7th Guest are the main titles that are considered to have ushered in digital media to PC gaming... and Return to Zork (love that game). But Rebel Assault is awesome too.
And even more awesome: The 7th Guest is Android-compatible with ScummVM!

I'm actually interested in getting it now. The Market kind of has a dearth of interesting games (I haven't spent a lot of time digging, YMMV), so every time I find a GOG that can work with Android I'm happy. :)