The 7th Guest For Macintosh CD-ROM IF YOU have a penchant for puzzles and a burning desire to look at and listen to some impressive graphics, music and sound effects created for up-to-date CD-ROM games, The 7th Guest (T7G) is highly recommended.
Although T7G, designed for Virgin Games by Graeme Devine and Rob Landeros of Trilobyte Software, is classified as an adventure game, it is an interactive puzzle-based drama, a horror game whose traditional brain-teasers are woven together by the haunting story of the mysterious Henry Stauf, an expert toymaker.
In the world of T7G, you play an active and mysterious entity known only as Ego. Your role is to unravel the mysteries surrounding one fateful night in Stauf mansion.
There are 22 stunningly rendered, devilishly surprising 3-D rooms with about 20 or so brain-teasers, such as mazes, word games and chess puzzles.
Some parts of the house are out of bounds if you have not satisfied certain conditions. Solving a puzzle often unlocks a room or number of rooms so do explore the mansion door-to-door.
You can be clued into the available rooms by consulting a map from the Sphinx board. But be careful not to do so mid-puzzle as you will lose your place when you leave to consult the map.