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Wish I could play it again!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This was one of the first computer games I played. My whole family ended up playing it, and we all loved it.
All these years later, it remains the standard by which all other games we buy are measured, and usually fail.
I will skip the storyline and puzzle specifics as they have been pretty much covered in other reviews.
Puzzles are plentiful and the ability to roam around the mansion is alot of fun, especially when you find the secret passageways!
There is a hint book you can access twice for each puzzle if you really hate one of them or get stuck.
The rooms are fun, and the voices are creepilicios!!
I wish I could play it today.

Some fun puzzles, but not much else

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I would have given it two and a half stars, but I'll have to give it two. There are some fun puzzles in this game, but it lacks a lot.

One -- some of the puzzles are badly unoriginal. The worst example of this is a player piano that imitates the game "Simon", where you have to remember the tune and play it back. Other puzzles almost repeat themselves

Two -- the puzzles do not interact with the game play at all. The game is basically just a walkthrough movie, with puzzles here and there to solve so that you can make it to the next part of the movie. In this respect, it is somewhat like the game "Fool's Errand"

Three -- the animation moves too darn slow in the puzzles. When you click on a move, the characters or icons on the screen move annoyingly slow.

Overall though, if you buy it cheap off the rack, it will be worth it for you. But it is still not a great game at all.

Great game..

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: November 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The seventh guest is an old game- initially came out in the early 90's but it still has a great concept and lots of puzzles.

You are the seventh guest- invited to a madman's mansion. The mansion is filled with ghosts and puzzles and the guests/ghosts are trapped there. The mansion has many rooms and each room has a puzzle. Each puzzle must be solved to advance the game, open more rooms and save the little boy. Stauf, the madman, is a toymaker who makes dolls from the souls of children and he is after a little boy to create another doll.

The puzzles themselves vary from the ridiculously easy (piano) to the very difficult (painting). There is a nice variation of puzzles types as well--memory games, logic games, chess, maze etc.

A nice feature is the library book which will give you hints on how to solve the puzzle and even solve it for those who get too frustrated.

The game's atmosphere is creepy but not scary. The music is great though it does tend to drown out the diaglogue. The rooms were well done with lots of hidden scenes and hidden exits.

Tedious and anticlimactic

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 19
Date: January 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was so happy to find a PC game based in a haunted house that featured lots of puzzles to solve. It sounded like it would be fun and spooky. It seemed to come highly recommended. So I bought it. I was bitterly disappointed with the game when I finished playing. I don't really have a complaint with the graphics. The game came out in the early 90's after all. The music, however, has to go. Sometimes it was so loud I could barely hear what the characters were saying. It doesn't serve to set the mood that you're in a creepy haunted house. It's just someone playing a mad synthesizer. I had to turn it off, it got so annoying. I also wish I could have turned off Stauf's commentary. At one point, you're journeying through a maze. Each time you hit a dead end, he says, "feeling...lonely?" I swear I heard him say it 50 times. I wanted to scream. The storyline of the game sounds interesting enough, but it doesn't really go anywhere. The ending left me feeling confused. The outside of the box says I am the 7th Guest. Throughout the game you see the ghost of a young boy who is referred to as the 7th Guest. So, is that boy supposed to be me? Am I supposed to be a ghost in the house, myself? Then why should I have to solve all these puzzles to figure out what happened, when it happened to ME? And that's another thing, the puzzles are awful. With most of them, you don't even get a hint as to what you're supposed to do to solve the puzzle. A couple of them were interesting, but overall I found them tedious. Definitely not the fun challenge I had anticipated.

If you like chess...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When this game first came out it was outstanding. We have come along way since then. The story is very weak. There are way too many puzzles closely resembling chess. The piano puzzle is overdone and the Basement maze is from hell itself-even with hints. The scenes are gross but fun. It is fun watching the scenes unravel eventually. It is a nice house.

Okay puzzler

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is the kind of thing that turns people off of adventure games, but on it's own terms it's okay, a puzzle game in adventure fancy pants.

The haunted house atmosphere is too silly to take seriously.

I wouldn't spend much for it, but if you can find it cheap (and if you like puzzles) you'll have fun with it.

great puzzles at least

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: December 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The story-line sucks. they play stupid music while the 'supposedly' scary things are happening. But the puzzles are great! and that's the main thing for me. the puzzles range from the common sense letter ones, to the more complicated mazes or "can" puzzle. i haven't been playing it for more than a couple of hours, and i've already come across at least 10 puzzles, which were challenging, and if not hard, at least they are fun to toy with. i would highly recommend this to any puzzle-lover, but if your in it for the horror and the battling, this game has none, so stay away.

My review, ya!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: May 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am writing a book called "The Future Best Games (you'll understand when you read it) Founder's Guide to the Best 1,001 Computer and Video Games Ever Made." Of "The 7th Guest," here's what I will say in my book:

Developer: Virgin Games
Platform: PC
Year: 1993
ESERB: T

Surely one of the most frightening games ever made, The 7th Guest was the subject of a lot of press upon its release for its 3D rendered graphics, its use of live action movies in parts of the game, and for its horror content.n Despite the fact that it was released in the early 1990s, the amazing graphics hold up really well today.

Although the game has many plot points in its basic premise, it comes across pretty simply. Once there was a toymaker named Henry Stauf (an anagram for "Faust") who made unique toys, each one different from the last, and children everywhere loved them. But then, circa 1903, he moved to the town of Harley-on-the-Hudson, and became a notorious mass killer. More tragedy still: a terrible virus began, killing the children of Harley. Then, one night, Stauf invited 7 people up to his mansion (which is on an otherwise deserted island not far from Harley), and 6 of them perished.

Once you are in Stauf's mansion (which you are after the beginning movie), it's pretty simple: you play the 7th guest, an alive but disembodied young man named Ego, and try to beat 20 or so puzzles, all of them ones that Stauf himself has laid out. He watches you as you do them, but once you complete them all, you get to find out what happened to the other 6 that fateful night. There is even a place you can go to in the house that completes puzzles that you are having difficulty completing. This is a mixed blessing, however, as it then permanently locks the room in which it is in, thereby making it impossible to do any unfinished puzzles in those rooms.

But in the end, the real reason why The 7th Guest is a success is not because of its wonderful (if that's the right way to put it, considering that this is a very dark game) premise, or its elaborate puzzles. As I said before, this is "surely one of the most frightening games ever made." I had never heard of it until I saw it at a computer store and bought it one day, and I was expecting just another game. But like Sweet Tarts Shockers, they give you something you don't expect. In Stauf's house, nearly everywhere you turn, you see at least one ghost, each more frightening than the last. The two scariest, in my opinion, are the two period piece women walking beside the staircase upstairs, and the wailing baby in Stauf's bathroom. More scary still is the music, which is so classic that it has been borrowed and used in several media.

Although, for the reason I just stated, I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone with a low constitution or under the age of 13, The 7th Guest represents a very good puzzle game that has held up well over time.

The Wizard of Oz of computer games

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This CD-rom is one of the oldest around, but one of the best still today. Despite some harsh critics, it's still great. If you're into spooky kinda stuff, and like strategy,this is the right game. But don't be disappointed, it isn't pee your pants scary. It's actually kinda corny when it tries to be super scary, but it's fun nonetheless. I recommend it for beginners in CD rom games.

Looking for brainteasers and an erie storyline too?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The 7th guest is a game recommended to those interested in an on-going mystery filled with games and clues needed to solve the mystery of such a haunted mansion. It's a great game, glues me to my computer.

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