The 7th Guest: 25th Anniversary Edition

I played this game around ...2001? Got as far as the pantry puzzle and was hooked. Unfortunately, after a house fire, homelessness and an unintentional homicide or three, I wasn't able to finish it. For 2.5 decades could never get it to work. It didn't like newer computers. I thought about the game a lot, as it inspired my love of "mystery" games. I've played/beaten all the Nancy Drews and Sherlock Holmeses and was STOKED to find this again on Steam. It's slow. The navigation leaves a lot to be desired. The constant interruptions to the gameplay with each voiceover make me want to rip my hair out. Some of the puzzles are way too easy and others ... I still don't know how I solved the house puzzle. You have to keep going back to check everything because things will appear randomly after cutscenes with no rhyme or reason. The story is well weird. But it's a great game. The nostalgia is hitting hard, so I could be biased, but my gerbil played and loved it too and that thing is like a week old, so I don't think it's *just* the trip down memory lane that makes it enjoyable. At any rate, it gave me something to do for the evening and it was only about ten bucks. I will probably rep…

Very fun game. I haven't payed this for a long time (Since I was a child) and so this was fun to play and show the people I love the game. It was the first computer game I had ever played.

this game's puzzles and everything else sucks. i suffered through the entire game for the knife puzzle to not show up even after verifying I did all puzzles. i suffered for nothing.

This must have been a surprise in the year it was released. I can see it, 3D spooky house, with fun 3D spookiness abounding. [i]Oooh[/i]!~~~ a ghost in the painting! Be warned, the puzzles are mostly like 'eh'. There's the piano one where you have to click over to a sequence of 171 piano keys in a row without missing or do it again. There's plenty of slide puzzle - but a twist! - now it's a harder more convoluted slide puzzle! /tile flip. There's chess puzzles! All in all it's not like there's that many puzzles altogether, but I found they were either nice and fun and kind of easy enough, or, more often, tedious and irritating (or purely a bit tame). I know there's a logic, but figuring it out seems an even bigger hassle than spending the 10 mins to an hour switching stuff over on intuition! Did not mostly like the puzzles, but felt guilty for the sentiment when the fun ones say hi. On the other hand, the music, theming, the visual style, and the voice acting pull up each puzzle into a worthy set piece even when said puzzle is not (most of the time) curious. Excellent music, by the way, the credits song is a classic (IMO). yyyyup. *thumbs up* Oh at some point loading a save didn'…

Played for all 6 minutes, the mouse cursor doesn’t line up with what you want, during the cake puzzle I’d put the finger on the piece I wanted then it’d disappear and I’d have to move to the right for it to highlight the ones I was aiming at, awful, refunded after that, can’t play a game when the mouse cursor on screen doesn’t even do what you’re wanting it to do

This game is good only if you play it with the free Legacy Edition DLC, something about the remaster removes the feel that the original version has. Still a good game if you enjoy puzzle games.