The famous game remastered in a new 25th Anniversary Edition!
The father and mother of all 'Haunted Mansion' games!
Winner of multiple gaming awards and “No. 1 Rated Game of 1994”.
"The new standard in interactive entertainment." - Bill Gates (Founder of Microsoft Corporation, 1993)
Henry Stauf's...
The famous game remastered in a new 25th Anniversary Edition!
The father and mother of all 'Haunted Mansion' games!
Winner of multiple gaming awards and “No. 1 Rated Game of 1994”.
"The new standard in interactive entertainment." - Bill Gates (Founder of Microsoft Corporation, 1993)
Henry Stauf's mansion has been abandoned for as long as anyone dare remember. Stauf was a master toy maker, a maker of amazing puzzles and this strange, eerie, mansion was his greatest creation.
It stands empty, rotting ever since children started dying with his toys near them, ever since six guests came and were never seen again.
Now, you are in the house, moving from one room to another, trying to remember and trying to forget. Because Stauf's game isn't over. There were six guests the world knew about - and there was one other.
The mansion of horror comes to life again and only you can end this mad nightmare and learn the secret of the 7th guest.
The game features:
Groundbreaking use of full-motion video and dialogue recorded by live actors in a terrifyingly virtual environment.
Bizarre puzzles to solve and games to play.
22 stunningly rendered, devilishly surprising, 3-D rooms await you in this fully explorable haunted mansion.
‘25th Anniversary Edition' features:
Totally new, much praised, game play controls that were built from the ground up.
Hotspot based with the option to highlight all hotspots in each game screen.
Skip quickly any scene.
Completely new map, which can be access directly from the game screen.
Many new mouse and keyboard shortcuts.
Completely new game menus and save/load system
Three Music options: The praised, orchestrated, music score re-mastered or the original score in high quality Midi recording or Adlib
Much improved voice acting audio and all-new, optional subtitles
High-end graphics upscaling (xBRZ filter) for high-resolution displays
Optional retro settings: play with original graphics, original music and even the original controls
A lot of extras:
‘The Making of’ featurette
19 Deleted Scenes and 34 Deleted Audio Parts
Comprehensive Soundtrack: 36 Tracks to add to your music collection!
‘The 7th Guest’ Novel (157 pages)
The Original Script (104 pages), ‘The Stauf Files’ booklet (20 pages), Original Game Manual (41 pages)
Legacy Editions as FREE downloadable content (DLCs) for Windows, macOS and Linux (English voice-acting only)
Multiple languages (ALL included without additional payment):
English voice acting, with or without English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Swedish or Hebrew subtitles
German voice acting with or without German subtitles
French voice acting with or without French subtitles
Russian voice acting with or without Russian subtitles
The game has some really challenging puzzles, and some genuinly creepy elements.
The music and graphics are clearly dated by todays standards, but for 1992 probably looked amazing, the acting is perfectly hammy too, all of which adds to the charm.
The game is fun, the story is slightly eerie, but it has clearly dated poorly in some respects. The atmosphere and music are intact and the puzzles are generally fun, but sometimes there's just too much wonkiness in the interface.
The video in particular is very clearly ancient and sometimes things really don't line up with what the actors are doing or saying.
Still, if you can see through that (you'll get the pun when you play this), you can have a lot of fun with the puzzles. Replayability is limited, though it's very possible to miss a lot of things if you don't look around and try to click everywhere.
You can even miss entire puzzles.
I played this game when I was a teenager. I'm so happy to see it back, but so sad to see so many people unhappy with it. I never had any of the updated versions so this will be so fun for me, even with the posted shortcomings. I have an emotional attachment to this game as one of the guys that introduced me to this game (What teenage girl can resist a bunch of guys playing horror puzzle games) is passed. So even with all its issues. I'm clicking buy right now because somewhere in Heaven, Paul Burton is so excited that I can play again. So this is for him and the other guys, Ricky, Jason, Tim, Nathan and Mike who broadened my gaming horizons and who never minded playing games with a girl! <3
Please remember that games, even if you don't like the work or how it turned out, take time and energy to make and preserve. I would like nothing more than to have my 386SX25 Packard Bell with my x CD-ROM drive and the original discs - trust me, every once in a while I'll go on eBay try find my model, the 4x ROM drive I upgraded to, and the original discs, but I've been searching to perfectly recreate my teenage setup for 10 years and still have not been able to do it. So I am more than happy to get this!
I remember this game fondly, from 25 years ago. I played it again, hated the interface, or lack of one. Found this updated experience. MUCH improved. But now I find the game annoying. The story is very interesting, I'd like to see where it goes. And a few of the puzzles have been fun. But several of them have been not puzzles, but just drawn-out trial-and-error time-killers. I'm wandering around in a maze now, and really bored. I've turned it off for now. Maybe I'll pick it back up. Or, I'll accept that games have to try harder now. We'll see.
Trilobyte is a company in the adventure game annals that deserves a lot of respect for what they've created, but this one didn't quite hit for me. The puzzles are unforunately I little too obtuse at times and offer very little in the ways of clues. They don't seem to have anything to do with their environments, just shoved in haphazardly into rooms.