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
At first I have to state, that I can only review the original review of the game, not the anniversary edition. I sadly can't find the original version on GOG anymore.
I first laid hands on 7th guest in 1993, because my father bought it. I was 10 years old and was not very amused, so I gave it go 2 days ago, now that I'm 37. The game has aged very, very good. There are games, that hit the market after the 2000s that have worse graphics than this one. The controls are very good, but there actually isn't much to control other than walking around and clicking through the puzzles.
The first half of the game really got me into it, and I had much fun solving the various puzzles, that all follow straight logic. In the beginning you actually spend some time just thinking and not actively playing. In the second half of the game, one can get the feeling, that the developers had no more good puzzles ideas, so you face a lot of boring puzzles like moving pictures around for example. The problem with these puzzles is, that you know how to solve them from the first minute, while it takes like forever to actually solve them.
I actually skipped some of the later puzzles (there is an option in the game for that), just to go on to the more challenging ones.
Overall I absolutely recommend playing the 7th Guest at least one time to set yourself back in the past of pc gaming. It is absolutely worth it.
Jerks, stop re-re-re-releasing the same game with no real reason. New languages - release =$15 Yay they bought again!! Now in HD! Release = $19.95 Haha they bought again! Now on Android! Also on IOS!!! Now on Linux! Also now on GOG!!!! Delisted now relisted as Reeeeeemastered and make them buy it again!! Woohoo they still keep buying!
