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Revision as of 08:18, 29 March 2019

The 7th Guest
The 7th Guest cover
Developers
Trilobyte
Publishers
Virgin Interactive
Engines
Groovie
Release dates
DOS April 1, 1993
Mac OS (Classic) January 1, 1993
Windows February 9, 2012[1]
macOS (OS X) April 23, 2013[2]
Linux October 19, 2013[3]
The 7th Guest guide on StrategyWiki
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

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
Mac OS
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Humble Store
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Packaged with The 11th Hour.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Essential improvements

James Woodcock's remastered soundtrack

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

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\GROOVIE.INI
Windows
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Linux
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 1]
Mac OS (Classic)
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Save games are named t7g.001, t7g.002, etc.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Template:Video settings

Input settings

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

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
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac OS (Classic)

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) DOS 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. 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