The 7th Guest Remake

About The 7th Guest Remake

The 7th Guest Remake is a first-person puzzle adventure by Vertigo Games and Exkee, released in June 2026 for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. It brings back The 7th Guest, the mystery adventure from the 90s, with redesigned puzzles, new environments and live-action performances captured in volumetric video, so the actors appear inside the 3D house rather than in flat cutscenes. It is made in Unreal Engine 5, and its story follows the studio's earlier The 7th Guest VR closely.

Six guests have been invited to the mansion of Henry Stauf, a wealthy, reclusive toymaker, in a small town outside New York during the Depression. The cast notes on the official site describe a man who made lifelike dolls on the orders of voices, and dark rumours about a disease that took the town's children. His guests are a faded chorus girl, a washed-up stage magician, a hotel heiress drinking away her family's name, and others with reasons to want a second chance. Who is the seventh guest, and what does Stauf want with them?

You walk the house freely in first person, and at the start almost every door is locked. Each room holds a handful of puzzles rooted in the mansion's lore: logic puzzles, visual puzzles and combination locks, from a glowing box on the dining table to a small safe with gems set in gears. Solving a room's puzzles moves the night forward, plays the next scene with the guests and opens more of the house. A ghost lantern you carry reveals glowing symbols, hints and a few jokes on floors, tables and walls. You can pick up and turn objects to look at them, but there is no inventory.

Coins are hidden around the house, often a coin or two in a drawer. You can spend them on a hint, or on the full solution to a puzzle that has you stuck. Reviewers found the new puzzles easier and better built than the original's, and the game takes about six to seven hours to finish.

The fear here is slow and atmospheric rather than violent: dark wood rooms, a host who watches from the shadows, children's rooms with chalk drawings on the walls, and the sense that the house is closing in as you go deeper. Heise called it a smartly staged interactive ghost train. It suits players who like slow puzzle games and haunted house mysteries more than chases or combat.

On PC it is sold on Steam and the Microsoft Store, and the Xbox version is Xbox Play Anywhere, so one purchase covers PC and Xbox. GOG and Epic Games Store pages say coming soon, and a Nintendo Switch version has been announced. The PlayStation 5 version has a short trial for PlayStation Plus Premium members. Owners of The 7th Guest VR can get the remake free, according to its Steam page.

How to play The 7th Guest Remake

1. Buy The 7th Guest Remake for PC, PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X|S from the store links on this page and start a new game.
2. Explore Stauf's mansion in first person with mouse and keyboard or a gamepad, and enter the rooms that are open to you.
3. Raise your ghost lantern to reveal hidden symbols, clues and hints in each room.
4. Open drawers and look around for coins; you can spend them on a hint or on a puzzle's solution.
5. Solve a room's puzzles to move the night forward, unlock new rooms and see the next scene with the guests.
6. Watch the ghostly scenes closely; they tell you who the guests are and what happened in the house.

Tips

• Shine the lantern over everything in a new room; clues are often drawn on surfaces you cannot see without it.
• Check every drawer: coins are often tucked inside, and they pay for hints when a puzzle has you stuck.
• Try a hint before buying a full solution, so you keep more coins for the harder puzzles later.
• Many puzzles echo the original game, so players who know it will spot familiar ideas, but the solutions are redesigned.
• Take your time: there are no enemies to rush you, and the puzzles grow harder as the house opens up.

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