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 graphics may be improved, sure, but don't get tricked by the rest of their promises.
I got this game for $4, and that's despite already owning the original.
The "making of" movie is nostalgic (they mention 3D studio!) but mostly boring.
I mean, in the 11th hour they included the actual making-of, how they thought, how they did it, etc.
Here? Nothing but a history lesson, and short at that.
Seriously. Buy the original. This one is a rip-off.
Unpopular take but I actually prefer this version due to the faster loading and skippable cutscenes. The original might have looked a bit tighter but this one looks fine, theres seems to be some kind of filtering going but i dont think it makes things any worse any any loss in quality is mitigated in my books by the widescreen support so i'm not going to dock any score off it for that.
That was a long journey for germans to get this game in german language for PC!
There we go! Philips brought this game to it's CD-I in a german version. Since then it was never released in german language - until 2019! It just needed 26 years! Wow, is that game already that old??
Whatever...
I'm hyped of the fact it's finally available in full german. I don't mind much about the improvements. I like it how it is - CLASSIC <3
*This is a review for the original version of The 7th Guest*
I've heard a lot about this game and after reading all it had accomplished when it was first published I knew I had to try it if only just to say I did. I bought it so long ago but had yet to play it... travesty! I knew that it was a strange game, to say the least, but I don't think anything can really prepare you for the oddities that await you inside Stauf Manor!
The story is delivered to you in bits and pieces as you traverse each room of the manor and it's up to you to piece together what is actually happening. I won't spoil anything by telling you it has something to do with the 7th guest!
The puzzles weren't as bad as I expected even though the get really strange. There were some, like Bishops Puzzle, I used a walkthrough to guide me through because it has a total of something like forty-two exact moves needed on a chess board to complete, but most all others I was able to figure out with little to no trouble. They were creative and interesting. Compared to its sequel - The 11th Hour - these puzzles are a godsend!
Bottom line, it's a great ride for nostalgia, but little else. You'll enjoy pieces but dislike others. You'll be glad you played it but happier when it's over.
