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The 7th Guest Remake

The 7th Guest Remake is a 2026 first-person puzzle adventure developed by Vertigo Studios Amsterdam with Exkee and published by Vertigo Games. It is a full remake of Trilobyte's 1993 CD-ROM hit, returning to the mansion of the toymaker Henry Stauf, who has gathered six guests and a child for a night of puzzles in the middle of the Great Depression. The player moves through the house as an unseen presence at the edge of the story, solving the rooms that stand between the boy Tad and the truth about Stauf's bargain. Vertigo rebuilt the mansion in Unreal Engine 5, replaced the original pre-rendered footage with a volumetric video cast, redesigned the puzzle set, and made the house shift around the player through optical illusions. The game supports flat-screen play on PC and consoles, and the Steam release also includes The 7th Guest VR; it launched on June 4, 2026 for PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2.

• Unreal Engine 5 Rebuild — Vertigo rebuilt Stauf's mansion from the ground up in Unreal Engine 5, replacing the 1993 game's pre-rendered backdrops with real-time environments, modern lighting and a first-person camera that moves freely through every room.
• Volumetric Video Cast — The live-action performances are captured as 3D volumetric video, so the guests and Stauf appear as figures standing inside the rooms rather than as flat video windows, and the remake re-recorded the cast for the new format.
• Shifting Mansion and Optical Illusions — The house rearranges itself around the player, using forced perspective and optical illusions so corridors and rooms change between visits and the mansion itself becomes part of the puzzle design.
• Redesigned Puzzle Set — The remake does not reuse the 1993 puzzle solutions: the rooms were rebuilt with a new puzzle set that keeps the original's logic-and-sequence spirit while tying each puzzle to the story of the room it sits in.
• Collectible Hunt — 88 collectibles are hidden through the mansion, led by Stauf Coins that are catalogued room by room, plus a set of gramophone records that have to be carried back to the gramophone in the foyer and played to fill in the backstory.
• Hint and Insult Feedback — Stauf reacts to failure, taunting the player when a puzzle is missed repeatedly, and the game layers optional hints on top so a stuck player can keep moving without abandoning the puzzle.
• The 7th Guest VR Included — The Steam release bundles The 7th Guest VR, Vertigo's 2023 virtual-reality reimagining, alongside the flat-screen remake, so the same purchase covers both versions of the mansion.