The 7th Guest
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The 7th Guest, produced by Trilobyte
and released by Virgin Games
in 1993
, is an FMV-based puzzle video game. It was one of the first computer video games to be released only on CD-ROM
. The 7th Guest is a horror
story told from the unfolding perspective of the player, as an amnesia
c. The game received a great amount of press attention for making live action video clips a core part of its gameplay, for its unprecedentedly large amount of pre-rendered 3D graphics, and for its adult content. In addition, the game was very successful, with over two million copies sold, and is widely-regarded as a killer app
that accelerated the sales of CD-ROM drives. Bill Gates
called The 7th Guest "the new standard in interactive entertainment."
In July 2010, on its official Facebook page, Trilobyte confirmed that The 7th Guest will be relaunched on both the iPhone
and iPad
platforms, and became available on the iTunes App Store on 15 December 2010. A release of the game's sequel, The 11th Hour is also planned for 2011.
Trilobyte has confirmed that there are plans for The 7th Guest III.
, solving logic puzzles and watching videos that further the story. The main antagonist, Henry Stauf, is an ever-present menace, taunting the player with clues, mocking the player as they fail his puzzles ("We'll all be dead by the time you solve this!"), and expressing displeasure when the player succeeds ("Don't think you'll be so lucky next time!").
A moderately complex plot of manipulation and sin
is gradually played out, in flashback, by actor
s through film clips as you progress between rooms by solving twenty-one puzzles of shifting nature and increasing difficulty. The first puzzles most players encounter is either one where players must select the right interconnected letters inside the lens of a telescope to form a coherent sentence; or a relatively simple cake puzzle, where the player has to divide the cake evenly into six pieces, each containing the same number of decorations. Other puzzles include mazes, chess problems, logical deductions, Simon
-style pattern-matching, word manipulations, and even an extremely difficult game of Infection
similar to Reversi
that utilizes an AI
(and would later go on to make an encore appearance in the sequel). For players who need help or simply cannot solve a particular puzzle, there is a hint book in the library of the house. The first two times the book is consulted about a puzzle, the book gives clues about how to solve the puzzle; on the third time, the book simply completes the puzzle for the player so that the player can proceed through the game. Although the game's manual states that there may be consequences for using the hint book, the hint book can be used without penalty for all but the final puzzle.
The 7th Guest was the first game for the PC
platform to be available only on CD-ROM
, since it was too large to be distributed on floppy disk
s: it came on 2 CDs. Removing some of the large movies and videos wasn't an option as they were essential to the gameplay
. This game, along with LucasArts
' Star Wars: Rebel Assault
and Brøderbund
's Myst
, helped promote the adoption of CD drives, which were not yet common. The game's POV footage of walking through the house was originally planned as live-action video in a practical set, but the idea was abandoned after pre-rendered 3D sequences proved feasible and more cost-effective.
Some time after the virus outbreak, six people received invitations to stay at Stauf's mansion: Martine Burden, a former singer; Edward and Elinor Knox, an older dissatisfied couple; Julia Heine who reminisces of her youth; Brian Dutton a fellow shopowner; and Hamilton Temple, a stage magician. When they arrive, they find no sign of Stauf, but instead instructions that they should stay the night and solve the puzzles that he has left them, and he will grant them their greatest desires. The guests, once on their own, each come to the conclusion that Stauf wants them to bring him the "seventh guest", which turns out to be a boy named Tad that has entered the house on a dare from his friends. Stauf seeks one more child which he will turn into one of his dolls, completing his pact with a supernatural entity.
The guests soon turn on each other: Martine lures Edward from his wife, and together they search for the boy. However, both Elinor and Hamilton recognize that Stauf has only evil plans for the child, and urge him to escape when they find him. Eventually, all but Julia and Tad succumb to death from their fellow guests or traps left by Stauf. Julia brings Tad to the attic, where the wheelchair bound Stauf awaits. Julia hands the boy to Stauf and demands her wish, but Stauf dissolves her in his own bile. Tad attempts to escape, but Stauf holds him back. The narrator, at this point, recognizes that he has seen all these events before, as he is the spirit of Tad; he has tried to stop this from happening countless times before and doomed to repeat it. Through the narrator's motivation, Tad is able to break free of Stauf's hold, causing the supernatural entity to take Stauf. Tad thanks the narrator, as the loop has now been broken, and they are taken into a glowing white light.
.
The in-game music had conventions similar to Sergei Prokofiev
's Peter and the Wolf
, wherein each guest was assigned a musical theme
; where Peter and Wolf used instrumental changes for its characters, The 7th Guest, conversely, used stylistic variations on the melody of Sanger's "The Game". Where two characters interact in the story, the styles are fused
, counterpoint
ed, or even sounded simultaneously and when tension abounds, the characters' themes are reflected thusly.
, and a Virgin MasterTronics
programmer
, Graeme Devine
. When Landeros and Devine presented their idea for the game, they were promptly "fired" so that they could start their own company, Trilobyte
, dedicated solely to the development of this game. They originally intended to create the movements through the mansion using video. 3D graphics and animation were introduced to the title early in '91 when Robert Stein III joined the team.
Graeme Devine
created the game's engine GROOVIE, which allowed continuous streaming of data from CD-ROM.
The game was to be ported to the unreleased SNES-CD peripheral.
version of the game was reviewed in 1994 in Dragon
#212 by Paul Murphy in the "Eye of the Monitor" column. Murphy felt that "The Seventh Guest suffers from an incurable case of confusion about what it is trying to be. It's either a collection of puzzles encumbered by an unnecessary horror setting and story—or it's a horror story and setting encumbered by an unnecessary collection of puzzles."
The 7th Guest was later released on the ill-fated CD-i
console.
An official third installment was started at Trilobyte, but was never completed due to the demise of the company. Rob Landeros also attempted to create an official third installment, titled The 7th Guest Part III: The Collector
.
Trilobyte released a compilation game made up of the puzzles from The 7th Guest, The 11th Hour, and Clandestiny
, called, Uncle Henry's Playhouse
.
The 7th Guest series was recently revived by Rob Landeros for the Apple iOS platform. The 7th Guest was released for iPhone
and iPad
on December 15, 2010. There are plans for a prequel and a third game in the series. There are also plans for a movie based on the game but details are, as of now, unknown.
In April 2011 Trilobyte released The 7th Guest: Infection
as an app for iPad. It is a stand-alone version of the Microscope Puzzle from the original version of The 7th Guest, which was excluded from the re-released iOS version for technical reasons.
Trilobyte
Trilobyte is a computer game developer founded in December 1990 by Graeme Devine and Rob Landeros. They are well known in the computer game industry for The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour games, and to a lesser extent for Clandestiny and other titles.- Logo :The official company logo consists of a...
and released by Virgin Games
Virgin Interactive
Virgin Interactive was a British video game publisher. It was formed as Virgin Games Ltd. in 1981. The company became much larger after purchasing the budget label, Mastertronic in 1987. It was part of the Virgin Group...
in 1993
1992 in video gaming
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, is an FMV-based puzzle video game. It was one of the first computer video games to be released only on CD-ROM
CD-ROM
A CD-ROM is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback. The 1985 “Yellow Book” standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data....
. The 7th Guest is a horror
Horror fiction
Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...
story told from the unfolding perspective of the player, as an amnesia
Amnesia
Amnesia is a condition in which one's memory is lost. The causes of amnesia have traditionally been divided into categories. Memory appears to be stored in several parts of the limbic system of the brain, and any condition that interferes with the function of this system can cause amnesia...
c. The game received a great amount of press attention for making live action video clips a core part of its gameplay, for its unprecedentedly large amount of pre-rendered 3D graphics, and for its adult content. In addition, the game was very successful, with over two million copies sold, and is widely-regarded as a killer app
Killer application
A killer application , in the jargon of marketing teams, has been used to refer to any computer program that is so necessary or desirable that it proves the core value of some larger technology, such as computer hardware, gaming console, software, or an operating system...
that accelerated the sales of CD-ROM drives. Bill Gates
Bill Gates
William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen...
called The 7th Guest "the new standard in interactive entertainment."
In July 2010, on its official Facebook page, Trilobyte confirmed that The 7th Guest will be relaunched on both the iPhone
IPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
and iPad
IPad
The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, and web content. The iPad was introduced on January 27, 2010 by Apple's then-CEO Steve Jobs. Its size and...
platforms, and became available on the iTunes App Store on 15 December 2010. A release of the game's sequel, The 11th Hour is also planned for 2011.
Trilobyte has confirmed that there are plans for The 7th Guest III.
Gameplay
The game is played by wandering through a mansionMansion
A mansion is a very large dwelling house. U.S. real estate brokers define a mansion as a dwelling of over . A traditional European mansion was defined as a house which contained a ballroom and tens of bedrooms...
, solving logic puzzles and watching videos that further the story. The main antagonist, Henry Stauf, is an ever-present menace, taunting the player with clues, mocking the player as they fail his puzzles ("We'll all be dead by the time you solve this!"), and expressing displeasure when the player succeeds ("Don't think you'll be so lucky next time!").
A moderately complex plot of manipulation and sin
Sin
In religion, sin is the violation or deviation of an eternal divine law or standard. The term sin may also refer to the state of having committed such a violation. Christians believe the moral code of conduct is decreed by God In religion, sin (also called peccancy) is the violation or deviation...
is gradually played out, in flashback, by actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
s through film clips as you progress between rooms by solving twenty-one puzzles of shifting nature and increasing difficulty. The first puzzles most players encounter is either one where players must select the right interconnected letters inside the lens of a telescope to form a coherent sentence; or a relatively simple cake puzzle, where the player has to divide the cake evenly into six pieces, each containing the same number of decorations. Other puzzles include mazes, chess problems, logical deductions, Simon
Simon (game)
Simon is an electronic game of memory skill invented by Ralph H. Baer and Howard J. Morrison, with the software programming being done by Lenny Cope and manufactured and distributed by Milton Bradley. Simon was launched in 1978 at Studio 54 in New York City and became an immediate success. It...
-style pattern-matching, word manipulations, and even an extremely difficult game of Infection
Ataxx
Ataxx is a board game that first appeared in 1990 as an arcade video game by The Leland Corporation. It also appeared in 1990 as the video game Spot and later as the Microscope Puzzle from the 1993 CD-ROM game The 7th Guest...
similar to Reversi
Reversi
Reversi is a board game involving abstract strategy and played by two players on a board with 8 rows and 8 columns and a set of distinct pieces for each side. Pieces typically are disks with a light and a dark face, each face belonging to one player...
that utilizes an AI
Ai
AI, A.I., Ai, or ai may refer to:- Computers :* Artificial intelligence, a branch of computer science* Ad impression, in online advertising* .ai, the ISO Internet 2-letter country code for Anguilla...
(and would later go on to make an encore appearance in the sequel). For players who need help or simply cannot solve a particular puzzle, there is a hint book in the library of the house. The first two times the book is consulted about a puzzle, the book gives clues about how to solve the puzzle; on the third time, the book simply completes the puzzle for the player so that the player can proceed through the game. Although the game's manual states that there may be consequences for using the hint book, the hint book can be used without penalty for all but the final puzzle.
The 7th Guest was the first game for the PC
IBM PC compatible
IBM PC compatible computers are those generally similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT. Such computers used to be referred to as PC clones, or IBM clones since they almost exactly duplicated all the significant features of the PC architecture, facilitated by various manufacturers' ability to...
platform to be available only on CD-ROM
CD-ROM
A CD-ROM is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback. The 1985 “Yellow Book” standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data....
, since it was too large to be distributed on floppy disk
Floppy disk
A floppy disk is a disk storage medium composed of a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium, sealed in a rectangular plastic carrier lined with fabric that removes dust particles...
s: it came on 2 CDs. Removing some of the large movies and videos wasn't an option as they were essential to the gameplay
Gameplay
Gameplay is the specific way in which players interact with a game, and in particular with video games. Gameplay is the pattern defined through the game rules, connection between player and the game, challenges and overcoming them, plot and player's connection with it...
. This game, along with LucasArts
LucasArts
LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC is an American video game developer and publisher. The company was once famous for its innovative line of graphic adventure games, the critical and commercial success of which peaked in the mid 1990s...
' Star Wars: Rebel Assault
Star Wars: Rebel Assault
Star Wars: Rebel Assault was the first CD ROM-only game published by LucasArts, set in the Star Wars universe. It was released for the PC followed by subsequent releases on the Sega CD, Mac and 3DO platforms.-Summary:...
and Brøderbund
Brøderbund
Brøderbund Software, Inc. was an American maker of computer games, educational software and The Print Shop productivity tools. It was best known as the original creator and publisher of the popular Carmen Sandiego games. The company was founded in Eugene, Oregon, but moved to San Rafael,...
's Myst
Myst
Myst is a graphic adventure video game designed and directed by the brothers Robyn and Rand Miller. It was developed by Cyan , a Spokane, Washington––based studio, and published and distributed by Brøderbund. The Millers began working on Myst in and released it for the Mac OS computer on September...
, helped promote the adoption of CD drives, which were not yet common. The game's POV footage of walking through the house was originally planned as live-action video in a practical set, but the idea was abandoned after pre-rendered 3D sequences proved feasible and more cost-effective.
Story
Set in 1935 in the town of Harley-on-the-Hudson, a drifter named Stauf, after murdering a woman, had dreams of beautiful dolls which he would then carve and give to the local children. Successful, he set up a toy store and continued to sell the dolls. At the height of his success, some of the children with Stauf's dolls came down with a incurable virus; meanwhile, Stauf, guided by another vision, built an eerie mansion on the edge of town, and after its construction, was not seen for some time. The rest of the game is presented from a first-person view as the player's avatar, called "Ego", explores the house, witnessing the events of the past through ghostly images and narrating on what is seen.Some time after the virus outbreak, six people received invitations to stay at Stauf's mansion: Martine Burden, a former singer; Edward and Elinor Knox, an older dissatisfied couple; Julia Heine who reminisces of her youth; Brian Dutton a fellow shopowner; and Hamilton Temple, a stage magician. When they arrive, they find no sign of Stauf, but instead instructions that they should stay the night and solve the puzzles that he has left them, and he will grant them their greatest desires. The guests, once on their own, each come to the conclusion that Stauf wants them to bring him the "seventh guest", which turns out to be a boy named Tad that has entered the house on a dare from his friends. Stauf seeks one more child which he will turn into one of his dolls, completing his pact with a supernatural entity.
The guests soon turn on each other: Martine lures Edward from his wife, and together they search for the boy. However, both Elinor and Hamilton recognize that Stauf has only evil plans for the child, and urge him to escape when they find him. Eventually, all but Julia and Tad succumb to death from their fellow guests or traps left by Stauf. Julia brings Tad to the attic, where the wheelchair bound Stauf awaits. Julia hands the boy to Stauf and demands her wish, but Stauf dissolves her in his own bile. Tad attempts to escape, but Stauf holds him back. The narrator, at this point, recognizes that he has seen all these events before, as he is the spirit of Tad; he has tried to stop this from happening countless times before and doomed to repeat it. Through the narrator's motivation, Tad is able to break free of Stauf's hold, causing the supernatural entity to take Stauf. Tad thanks the narrator, as the loop has now been broken, and they are taken into a glowing white light.
Music
The second disc of the CD-ROM set included a very large single audio track playable on any regular CD player. In total, the track was almost a half an hour long and it included both the in-game music, composed by already leading video game musician George "The Fat Man" Sanger, and two live music recordings: "The Game", whose melody in various permutations and stylistic variations became the background music for most of the game (as well as the theme for a piano puzzle) and whose lyrics were based on Stauf's twisted plot, and "Skeletons in My Closet", a jazzy tune with a female lead voice (Kris McKay) which was the ending-credits theme. A few years later, Sanger independently released an album titled 7/11, which was a little over an hour long and contained all the music from T7G (this time, on separate tracks) as well as its sequel, The 11th HourThe 11th Hour (computer game)
The 11th Hour is a 1995 puzzle computer game with a horror setting. It is the sequel to the 1992 game The 7th Guest. It was developed by Trilobyte and used a later version of the "Groovie" graphic engine than that used by The 7th Guest...
.
The in-game music had conventions similar to Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
's Peter and the Wolf
Peter and the Wolf
Peter and the Wolf , Op. 67, is a composition written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936 in the USSR. It is a children's story , spoken by a narrator accompanied by the orchestra....
, wherein each guest was assigned a musical theme
Leitmotif
A leitmotif , sometimes written leit-motif, is a musical term , referring to a recurring theme, associated with a particular person, place, or idea. It is closely related to the musical idea of idée fixe...
; where Peter and Wolf used instrumental changes for its characters, The 7th Guest, conversely, used stylistic variations on the melody of Sanger's "The Game". Where two characters interact in the story, the styles are fused
Fusion (music)
A fusion genre is music that combines two or more styles. For example, rock and roll originally developed as a fusion of blues, gospel and country music. The main characteristics of fusion genres are variations in tempo, rhythm, i a sometimes the use of long musical "journeys" that can be divided...
, counterpoint
Counterpoint
In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more voices that are independent in contour and rhythm and are harmonically interdependent . It has been most commonly identified in classical music, developing strongly during the Renaissance and in much of the common practice period,...
ed, or even sounded simultaneously and when tension abounds, the characters' themes are reflected thusly.
Development
The 7th Guest was the brainchild of game designer/graphic artist Rob LanderosRob Landeros
Rob Landeros is a computer game designer and graphic artist. Together with Graeme Devine, he co-founded Trilobyte, where he created the highly commercially successful games The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour...
, and a Virgin MasterTronics
Mastertronic
Mastertronic was originally a publisher and distributor of low-cost computer game software founded in 1983. Their first games were distributed in mid-1984. At its peak the label was the dominant software publisher in the UK, a position achieved by selling cassette-based software at the £1.99...
programmer
Game programmer
A game programmer is a software engineer, programmer, or computer scientist who primarily develops codebase for video games or related software, such as game development tools. Game programming has many specialized disciplines all of which fall under the umbrella term of "game programmer"...
, Graeme Devine
Graeme Devine
Graeme Devine is a computer game designer and programmer who co-founded Trilobyte, created bestselling games The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour, and designed id Software's Quake III Arena. He was also Chairman of the International Game Developers Association from 2002-2003...
. When Landeros and Devine presented their idea for the game, they were promptly "fired" so that they could start their own company, Trilobyte
Trilobyte
Trilobyte is a computer game developer founded in December 1990 by Graeme Devine and Rob Landeros. They are well known in the computer game industry for The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour games, and to a lesser extent for Clandestiny and other titles.- Logo :The official company logo consists of a...
, dedicated solely to the development of this game. They originally intended to create the movements through the mansion using video. 3D graphics and animation were introduced to the title early in '91 when Robert Stein III joined the team.
Graeme Devine
Graeme Devine
Graeme Devine is a computer game designer and programmer who co-founded Trilobyte, created bestselling games The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour, and designed id Software's Quake III Arena. He was also Chairman of the International Game Developers Association from 2002-2003...
created the game's engine GROOVIE, which allowed continuous streaming of data from CD-ROM.
The game was to be ported to the unreleased SNES-CD peripheral.
Reception
The MacintoshMacintosh
The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...
version of the game was reviewed in 1994 in Dragon
Dragon (magazine)
Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products, the other being Dungeon. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. The...
#212 by Paul Murphy in the "Eye of the Monitor" column. Murphy felt that "The Seventh Guest suffers from an incurable case of confusion about what it is trying to be. It's either a collection of puzzles encumbered by an unnecessary horror setting and story—or it's a horror story and setting encumbered by an unnecessary collection of puzzles."
Legacy
Following the success of The 7th Guest, Trilobyte released a sequel, The 11th Hour.The 7th Guest was later released on the ill-fated CD-i
CD-i
CD-i, or Compact Disc Interactive, is the name of an interactive multimedia CD player developed and marketed by Royal Philips Electronics N.V. CD-i also refers to the multimedia Compact Disc standard used by the CD-i console, also known as Green Book, which was developed by Philips and Sony...
console.
An official third installment was started at Trilobyte, but was never completed due to the demise of the company. Rob Landeros also attempted to create an official third installment, titled The 7th Guest Part III: The Collector
The 7th Guest Part III: The Collector
The 7th Guest Part III: The Collector is the official second sequel to the popular 1993 game The 7th Guest developed by Rob Landeros and Graeme Devine . The Collector was to be released in 2004 under the publisher Lunny Interactive, but after much delay the game disappeared off Lunny's website...
.
Trilobyte released a compilation game made up of the puzzles from The 7th Guest, The 11th Hour, and Clandestiny
Clandestiny
Clandestiny, published in 1996 by Virgin Games and developed by Trilobyte, is a video-based puzzle computer game. After the profit loss of The 11th Hour, the second game created by Trilobyte, the producers went on to make a more kid-friendly version of the The 7th Guest series...
, called, Uncle Henry's Playhouse
Uncle Henry's Playhouse
Uncle Henry's Playhouse was a compilation game made up of the puzzles from Trilobyte's games The 7th Guest, The 11th Hour, and Clandestiny...
.
The 7th Guest series was recently revived by Rob Landeros for the Apple iOS platform. The 7th Guest was released for iPhone
IPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
and iPad
IPad
The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, and web content. The iPad was introduced on January 27, 2010 by Apple's then-CEO Steve Jobs. Its size and...
on December 15, 2010. There are plans for a prequel and a third game in the series. There are also plans for a movie based on the game but details are, as of now, unknown.
In April 2011 Trilobyte released The 7th Guest: Infection
The 7th Guest: Infection
The 7th Guest: Infection is a strategy-oriented mobile game which originally appeared as the Microscope Puzzle in the 1993 computer game The 7th Guest...
as an app for iPad. It is a stand-alone version of the Microscope Puzzle from the original version of The 7th Guest, which was excluded from the re-released iOS version for technical reasons.
Awards
The 7th Guest won the following awards:- 1995 Interactive Academy/Cybermania Awards - Best CD Game
- 1994 Multimedia World Readers' Choice Award - Best Entertainment Title
- 1994 Computer Game ReviewComputer Game ReviewComputer Game Review was a print magazine covering both computer gaming, and at the time upper end video gaming. Also known as Computer Game Review and 16-Bit Entertainment, and then later as Computer Game Review and CD-Rom Entertainment.Reviews typically consisted of a short, impartial synopsis of...
- Golden Triad Award - 1994 New Media Invision Awards - Award of Excellence
- 1994 New Media Invision Awards - Gold-Creative Excellence for Best Animation/Graphics
- 1994 PC World Class - Best CD-ROM Game / Adult
- 1994 Electronic Entertainment 1st Annual Editors' Choice - Breakthrough Game
- 1994 Computer Gaming World Readers' Poll - No. 1 Rated Game
- 1993 PC Computing- MVP Entertainment Software
- 1993 Game Players PC Entertainment - Special Achievement in Graphics Design
- 1993 British Interactive Media - Silver Award
External links
- The Stauf Mansion - Detailed information on the games, the planned third part of the series, and rare test animations by Trilobyte.
- Unofficial arrangements (ReMixes) of The 7th Guest's soundtrack at OverClocked ReMixOverClocked ReMixOverClocked ReMix, also known as OC ReMix and OCR, is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and paying tribute to video game music through arranging and re-interpreting the songs with new technology and software, as well as by various traditional means...
, one of which was created by the game's composer, "The Fat Man" George Sanger. - The Making of The 7th Guest (video) & The 7th Guest soundtrack
- 'Beyond Tetris' - The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour: a review of the puzzles of The 7th Guest at GameSetWatch