The 11th Hour

[h1]Pros:[/h1] [b]✅ I liked the game, but unfortunately it's just too broken to recommend.[/b] [b]✅ Multiple endings.[/b] [b]✅ I enjoyed the atmospheric horror setting.[/b] [b]✅ The cutscenes and bizarre plot were quite entertaining.[/b] [b]✅ I love how the game constantly insults my intelligence for not knowing how to solve puzzles.[/b] [h1]Cons:[/h1] [b]❌ Some puzzles seem to be designed for geniuses. The chess puzzle, which for some players will be the first puzzle they encounter in the game, is absolutely brutal... Holy sh*t...[/b] [b]❌ The game is also very broken on Windows 11. I highly rec…

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I was obsessed with 7th Guest as a kid, and was so excited to finally play the sequel... Good things: I found the puzzles very engaging, and there was so much more engagement and nuance with the enviroment compared 7th Guest (almost too much - almost anything was clickable to interact with... but the house decor was ... changed). Sadly, I otherwise found the game play a bit cringe. Not just an SA storyline that didn't age well, but also a lot of clunky changes to mechanics and game flow. The clues had you constantly running in circles around the house - like for a single clue you might have to repeatedly visit three different rooms. Instead of being able to 'auto-complete' when you get stuck on a puzzle, you have to do innumerable click-throughs each turn to tell the computer to take your turn for you... and you still are not guranteed to 'win'. Sadly, the coding also made it REALLY easy to click out of puzzles... which meant sometimes resetting right on the brink of solving. The sound was also hard to handle... cut scenes and game sounds had different audio, often the game music over-powered voice overs and cut-scene dialogue. Finally, it does not let you auto-complete the…

The puzzles are poorly explained and sometimes really difficult, sometimes just plain stupid. [spoiler] There is a riddle where you have to have to get two equal numbers on an old cash register by adding up numbers and pressing them, however simply getting the right sum is not enough, no, you have to press [i] specific [/i] numbers to solve the puzzle [/spoiler] Other times you have to solve a puzzle in a set (but never mentioned) amount of moves. The "clues" that the game gives you as to where to go next are beyond far-fetched and often not even helpful. I bow my head to anyone who managed to finish this without ever looking at a guide. On top of that the game runs as you would expect of a 30+ year old game. It crashes, controls are wonky and it does not like high framerates. Although, looking at the forums and other reviews, i seem to have had a lot less problems than others. Also, the only options that it has are high- or low-definition FMVs. Nothing else. No display/graphic options, not even a volume slider.

Classic & Thrilling Puzzle Game

I've never played The 7th Guest, which this game is a sequel to. I doubt that negatively affected my experience of this game, but I thought I'd mention it. The 11th Hour is a horror themed, point and click, puzzle game with FMV segments. It's an old game, so there is all of the jank that is included with being old. The game doesn't hold up well today, but it is worth playing if you like like old point and click games, or if you like being stumped at ridiculous hints and puzzles. Positives + Cool Puzzles +Entertaining FMV segments/Story Negatives + Stupid Puzzles (I said they were cool, but some are really dumb) + Crashes + Loud, goofy music (Can't hear the narrator over it) + Bad hints (Anagrams and leaps in logic) + Nonsense progression (Find random objects to go through already open doors) Overall, I give it a 5/10 (Why not!!!!!!) :)