The 7th Guest

The 7th Guest is a horror story told from the unfolding perspective of the player, as an amnesiac. The first two times the book is consulted about a puzzle, the book gives clues about how to solve the puzzle; on the third time, the book simply completes the puzzle for the player so that the player can proceed through the game. The 7th Guest was one of the first games for the PC platform to be available only on CD-ROM, since it was too large to be distributed on floppy disks. Stauf begins to have other visions of dolls and toys, and crafts and sell these as well. Julia was the last guest left alive, and had discovered Tad, and dragged the boy to the attic where Stauf waited for them; Stauf had by this point become a horrific creature, having made a pact with the evil force that helped him to make the toys and caused the illness in the children. Stauf is unable to recapture the child, and the evil entity consumes Stauf for failing to complete the pact.