Classic CD-ROM game The 7th Guest gets a big VR remake

The seventh Visitor, the traditional puzzle thriller set in a haunted mansion that broke new floor for CD-ROM video games, is getting a full remake. The brand new model of The seventh Visitor is playable in VR and can keep true to the unique recreation’s storyline and puzzle-focused gameplay, its creators say.

Gamers will be capable of discover the sport’s well-known mansion in three dimensions in The seventh Visitor VR, developer Vertigo Video games mentioned in a presentation proven to press in Might. The remake of the 1993 unique will characteristic puzzles that gamers will work together with in full 3D VR to resolve, in addition to ghostly inhabitants that had been filmed utilizing volumetric video seize. Anticipate extra plausible and interactive ghosts haunting the mansion, due to real-life actors that had been filmed particularly for VR.

Gamers also can anticipate VR-powered optical illusions that weren’t doable within the unique recreation. Rooms within the mansion will change form and stretch past perception, the VR remake’s creators say.

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However anticipate the traditional The seventh Visitor story, as written by Matthew J. Costello, to remain largely the identical. Vertigo Video games says it has consulted with a few of the unique recreation’s creators, together with Rob Landeros and Graeme Devine, co-founders of developer Trilobyte, for the VR remake.

The seventh Visitor VR might be launched for the Meta Quest 2 VR headset — and would logically be supported by the newly introduced Quest 3 headset — and different PC VR platforms later this 12 months.

The traditional point-and-click FMV model of The seventh Visitor is obtainable on PC, in its twenty fifth Anniversary Version type, from Steam and GOG.com.