The 7th Guest is an interactive movie puzzle adventure game, produced by Trilobyte and originally released by Virgin Interactive Entertainment in April 1993.[1] It is one of the first computer video games to be released only on CD-ROM. The 7th Guest is a horror story told from the unfolding perspective of the player, as an amnesiac. The game received press attention for making live action video clips a core part of its gameplay, for its then-unprecedented amount of pre-rendered 3D graphics, and for its adult content. The game was very successful, with over two million copies sold. It, alongside Myst, is widely regarded as a killer app that accelerated the sales of CD-ROM drives. The 7th Guest has subsequently been re-released on Apple's app store for various systems such as the Mac.[2] Bill Gates called The 7th Guest "the new standard in interactive entertainment".
The game has been ported in various formats to different systems, with Trilobyte mentioning the potential for a third entry in the series.[3][4]
Vertigo Studios and Exkee developed a virtual reality version of The 7th Guest for Meta Quest and Windows-based VR headsets, was released on October 19, 2023. The game had similar story and fully explorable VR environments with new puzzles better suited for VR, and the prior full-motion video clips was replaced with newly-filmed (new actors) clips using volumetric video.