Games like The 7th Guest
If The 7th Guest is your kind of game, the closest matches are The 11th Hour, The 7th Guest: 25th Anniversary Edition and Harvester — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, immersive and nostalgic. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About The 7th Guest: Henry Stauf's mansion has been abandoned for as long as anyone dare remember. Stauf was a master toy maker, a maker of amazing puzzles and this strange house was his greatest creation. Now the mansion stands empty, rotting ever since the children started dying, ever since the six guests came.
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The 11th Hour
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The 7th Guest.
Top pick for The 7th Guest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The 7th Guest.
IN THE 70 DESOLATE YEARS since the horrifying murders chronicled in The 7th Guest, the town of Harley has been ominously silent.Only when journalist Robin Morales vanishes while investigating the rotting abandoned mansion of the legendary toy maker Henry Stauf, do events resurrect a malignant past.
The 7th Guest: 25th Anniversary Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The 7th Guest.
Second-strongest match for The 7th Guest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The 7th Guest.
The famous game remastered in a new 25th Anniversary Edition! The father and mother of all 'Haunted Mansion' games. Winner of multiple gaming awards and “No. 1 Rated Game of 1994”.
Harvester
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with The 7th Guest.
Third-strongest match for The 7th Guest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The 7th Guest.
A strange and twisted world...Harvester! The most violent adventure game of all time comes to Steam!
Bad Mojo Redux
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The 7th Guest.
Ranked #4 for The 7th Guest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The 7th Guest.
Enter a world of perilous puzzles and bizarre perspectives--as a cockroach. What you discover may shock you. What you don't may kill you. Either way, you won't come out the same person. You may not even come out a person at all.
Realms of the Haunting
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The 7th Guest.
Ranked #5 for The 7th Guest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Forged in the Beginning and protected by the Seven Seals, there lies a place where thought and creation intertwine. The center for all realms of existence, it is the balancing force between good and evil, man and spirit. A focal point for all energies, and the one element that has kept the consuming nature of darkness at bay... Until now.
Riven (1997)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The 7th Guest.
Ranked #6 for The 7th Guest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The 7th Guest.
Released in 1997 as the original sequel to Myst, one of the best-selling puzzle adventure games of all time. Prepare to enter a world "torn asunder" by timeless, unresolved conflicts -- a world of incomparable beauty, intrigue, and betrayal.
Phantasmagoria
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The 7th Guest.
Ranked #7 for The 7th Guest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The 7th Guest.
Master storyteller Roberta Williams challenges you to experience the ultimate interactive nightmare.
Killing Time: Resurrected
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The 7th Guest.
Ranked #8 for The 7th Guest fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Journey into a mansion on the Island of Matinicus where you'll arrive to find the mansion full of hellacious demonic creatures. Solve deadly puzzles, uncover the secrets behind a famous mystery and discover an ancient artifact from the Pharaoh Ramses, if you can live long enough to find it.
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The 11th Hour
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The 7th Guest.
Reviewers of The 7th Guest cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The 7th Guest.
IN THE 70 DESOLATE YEARS since the horrifying murders chronicled in The 7th Guest, the town of Harley has been ominously silent.Only when journalist Robin Morales vanishes while investigating the rotting abandoned mansion of the legendary toy maker Henry Stauf, do events resurrect a malignant past.
Myst
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The 7th Guest.
Reviewers of The 7th Guest cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The 7th Guest.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
DOOM
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with The 7th Guest.
Reviewers of The 7th Guest cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
Chip's Challenge (Amiga/C64/Lynx/Mega Drive/SNES/Spectrum)
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Reviewers of The 7th Guest cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The classic brain-twisting grid-based puzzle game returns in this collection, including the original 1989 Atari Lynx version, three classic ports, and two brand new Sega Mega Drive and SNES ports. Help Chip impress Melinda the Mental Marvel by beating her 140+ tough challenges.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The 7th Guest.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The 7th Guest.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The 7th Guest.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The 7th Guest.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The 7th Guest.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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Frequently asked about The 7th Guest
- Is The 7th Guest verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The 7th Guest is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- What games are most similar to The 7th Guest?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The 7th Guest are The 11th Hour, The 7th Guest: 25th Anniversary Edition, Harvester.
- Who developed The 7th Guest?
- The 7th Guest was developed by Trilobyte Games and published by Nightdive Studios.
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