The 7th Guest

This page is for the original game. For the remake, see The 7th Guest: 25th Anniversary Edition.

The 7th Guest
The 7th Guest	1993
The 11th Hour	1995
Uncle Henry's Playhouse	1996
The 7th Guest: 25th Anniversary Edition	2019
The 13th Doll: A Fan Game of The 7th Guest	2019
The 7th Guest VR	2023

Key points

Can be run under ScummVM.

General information

List of known issues with The 7th Guest and ScummVM.

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GOG.com		Available as a goodie with The 7th Guest: 25th Anniversary Edition
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store		Packaged with The 11th Hour.
Mac App Store

Essential improvements

James Woodcock's remastered soundtrack

Original MIDI soundtrack rearranged and re-recorded using modern professional audio equipment

Requires ScummVM

Minimise CD-ROM swapping

The original game comes on two CD-ROM's. Disk swapping can be avoided if you have multiple CD-ROM drives available by putting the games CD-ROM's in different drives, assuming that each drive will get a separate drive letter.

Use DOSBox

Notes With DOSBox you can IMGMOUNT each CD-ROM image onto a different virtual CD-ROM drive by adding lines similar to these to your dosbox config:

[autoexec]
MOUNT C "7THGUEST"
IMGMOUNT D "7THGUEST/CD/7th_Guest_CD1.iso" -t iso
IMGMOUNT E "7THGUEST/CD/7th_Guest_CD2.iso" -t iso
C:
CD \T7G
call T7G.BAT

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\GROOVIE.INI
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/255920/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System	Location
DOS	<path-to-game>\t7g.*
Windows	<path-to-game>\t7g.*^{[Note 2]}
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/255920/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save games are named t7g.001, t7g.002, etc.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Game features prerendered art that only displays in 4:3.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		Toggle with `Alt`+`↵ Enter`
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Mouse-driven game.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		For DOSBox set in the DOSBox configuration file.
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other workarounds).

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		For DOSBox change the `priority` background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Red Book CD audio		See ScummVM readme for how to use with ScummVM.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
DOS video modes	MCGA, VGA, SVGA, SVGA (VESA)

Executable	PPC	16-bit	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows					64-bit requires 64-bit build of ScummVM.
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

DOS
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	DOS 5.0
Processor (CPU)	80386DX	80486SX 20 MHz or faster
System memory (RAM)	2 MB	4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	10 MB
Video card (GPU)	512 KB of VRAM	1 MB of VRAM
Other	1x CD-ROM drive

Mac OS
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7.0
Processor (CPU)	Motorola 68030 20 MHz	Motorola 68040 32 MHz
System memory (RAM)	4 MB	8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	10 MB
Other	1x CD-ROM drive

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	95	NT
Processor (CPU)	80486DX4 100 MHz	Intel Pentium 90
System memory (RAM)	16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU)	1 MB of VRAM DirectX 3 compatible
Other	4x CD-ROM drive

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/255920/.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (255920) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

[Proton_path_note-4] 1.0 ^1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/255920/.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (255920) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[2] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[3] Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/255920/.

[4] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[5] The app ID (255920) may differ in some cases.

[6] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[7] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[gamedir-5] When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

[1] Release: The 7th Guest - GOG.com

[2] Mac Game Update: 22 New Additions - GOG.com

[3] News - Now Available - The 7th Guest

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Developers

	Trilobyte
Publishers
	Virgin Interactive
Engines
	Groovie
Interpreter	ScummVM
Release dates
DOS	April 1, 1993
Mac OS (Classic)	January 1, 1993
Windows	November 1997
Windows (ScummVM)	February 9, 2012^[1]
macOS (OS X) (ScummVM)	April 23, 2013^[2]
Linux (ScummVM)	October 19, 2013^[3]
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer
Genres	Adventure, Puzzle
Art styles	FMV, Live action, Pre-rendered graphics
Themes	Horror, North America
Series	The 7th Guest