Dos game clandestiny series#
Dos game clandestiny windows#

Dos game clandestiny series#

The mansion is presented as a series of intricate 3D renderings of the interior, with pre-rendered animated transitions between locations. The 7th Guest is played entirely from a first-person perspective, and is a point-and-click adventure in the style of Myst. As Ego struggles to uncover the secrets of the Stauf mansion and help Tad escape the clutches of Henry Stauf, more of the backstory of the guests and the nature of Stauf's business are revealed.Īdditional background material told through newspaper clippings was presented in a scrap book feelie included with the game. The guests begin to turn on each other, and a series of grisly murders are committed. A neighbor boy named Tad crashes the party on a dare, and becomes trapped in the house, now a target of Stauf's murderous desires. However, the night quickly turns macabre when it is revealed that Stauf's motives are of a more sinister nature. Six guests, all socialites from the community, are invited by Stauf to take place in a puzzle-solving scavenger hunt on the grounds of the estate, with the promise that the winner's every wish would be granted. Following his visions, Stauf managed to amass a great fortune, and built a foreboding mansion filled with diabolical traps and puzzles.

Once a vagrant with a murderous past, Stauf became possessed by visions of toys that the public would find irresistible. The player character, known only as 'Ego' unexpectedly finds himself to be the invisible observer during a party hosted by toymaker Henry Stauf.

The game takes place sometime in the past, and is told through a series of ghostly flashbacks. The game was followed by a sequel in 1995, titled The 11th Hour. In 2012, a ScummVM-based port became available on GOG, and was added to Steam through its Greenlight program in 2013. This version has three of the original twenty-two puzzles cut, due to various technical issues. Another port, this time for the iPhone and iPad, was released on December 15th, 2010. Both featured reduced difficulty, and the CD-i version omitted one of the word puzzles.

Dos game clandestiny windows#

Ports of the game to Windows and Philips CD-i were later released, each with minor changes from the original. Alongside the original Myst it was considered one of the first killer apps for the then new CD-Rom technology.

As an early game designed specifically for the fledgling CD-ROM format, it demonstrated the advancements that CD media had over previous formats with elements such as full-motion video as a major element of its presentation. The 7th Guest is an adventure game developed by Trilobyte and originally released in April 1993 for PCs running DOS.