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Whither The 7th Guest-Style Puzzle Adventure?

Posted by simoniker on from the withering-glare dept.

Deunan writes "While poking around on the Internet, I discovered a DirectX front end for the classic The 7th Guest CD-ROM puzzle adventure. After some further searching, I stumbled across a more recent pitch for 7th Guest III: The Collector [apparently the game was in development in 2002/3, and there's an interview with designer Rob Landeros about it, but it seems to be stalled.] I was wondering what killed interest in it - are 'thinking' games just not popular anymore?"

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  1. Re:They exist; just not as story driven adventures by WarriorPoet42 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Another popular (but horrid) game in this genre was Phantasmagoria. Horror movie inspired hackishness.
    The Myst games were great, but Riven was silly hard. The marble puzzle at the end haunted my very dreams. Uru seems to be much easier, so maybe Cyan got complaints about Riven's difficulty.