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The 7th Guest

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

The 7th Guest
The 7th Guest cover
Developers
Trilobyte
Publishers
Retail Virgin Interactive
Retail re-release Sold Out Software
Digital Nightdive Studios
Engines
Groovie
Interpreter ScummVM
Release dates
DOS April 1, 1993
Mac OS (Classic) February 1994
Windows November 1997
Windows (ScummVM) February 9, 2012[1]
macOS (OS X) (ScummVM) April 23, 2013[2]
Linux (ScummVM) October 19, 2013[3]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Relaxed
Perspectives First-person
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure, Puzzle
Art styles FMV, Live action, Pre-rendered graphics
Themes Horror, North America
Series The 7th Guest
The 7th Guest on HowLongToBeat
The 7th Guest on IGDB
The 7th Guest guide on StrategyWiki
The 7th Guest on MobyGames
The 7th Guest on Wikipedia
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

The 7th Guest is a singleplayer first-person adventure and puzzle game in the The 7th Guest series.

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
DRM details are not known
DOS
Windows
Mac OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Available as a goodie with The 7th Guest: 25th Anniversary Edition
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Humble Store
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Bundled with The 11th Hour.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac App Store (unavailable)
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macOS (OS X)
Steam (unavailable)
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Windows

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-ROMs. Disk swapping can be avoided if multiple CD-ROM drives are available by putting the game's CD-ROMs in different drives, assuming that each drive will get a separate drive letter.

Use DOSBox

With DOSBox, the IMGMOUNT command can be used on each CD-ROM image onto a different virtual CD-ROM drive by adding lines similar to these in the DOSBox configuration:

[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) <Steam-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) <Steam-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

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.
Royalty free audio
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)
ExecutablePPC16-bit 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
64-bit requires 64-bit build of ScummVM.
macOS (OS X)
[4]
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) 80386DX
System memory (RAM) 2 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 10 MB
Video card (GPU) 512 KB of VRAM
Other 1x CD-ROM drive
Mac OS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7.0
Processor (CPU) Motorola 68030 20 MHz
System memory (RAM) 4 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 10 MB
Other 1x CD-ROM drive
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) 80486DX4 100 MHz
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. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/255920/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (255920) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
  2. 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

  1. Release: The 7th Guest - GOG.com - last accessed on 17 May 2023
  2. Mac Game Update: 22 New Additions - GOG.com - last accessed on 17 May 2023
  3. News - Now Available - The 7th Guest - last accessed on 17 May 2023
  4. Catalina 64-bit Compatibility - Google Docs - last accessed on 5 May 2023