The 11th Hour

Actually not a bad game, but you have no settings for lowering the volume of the loud background music. Even worse if you want to start the game you can't skip the intro to start the menu. If these "little" problems weren't there the game isn't still better at all. Under Steam your game sometime crashes or you can't play properly. And I know the game has aged, but by modern standards the graphics look terrible, the music is often annoying and if you have to solve some riddle games and you click on some hotspot the mouse cursor doesn't match many a time. I played "The 7th Guest" long time ago and this was the best horror game I've ever seen. Dark atmosphere, haunting story, eerie ghosts and good and logical puzzles. It still give me nowadays even a chill. The 11th hour is set to the 1990's and all the actors played ham-handed, except for the actors of Henry Stauf, Carl and Samantha. The movie sequences are boring and gassy. I've waited to be scared, but I became tired of this kind of disappointments. Most of the puzzles in 11th hour are about hotspot hunting in rooms and you have to return into the same rooms over and over again just to click on another hotspots. If you had clicked on the hotspots a small video sequence starts. The further you play through the game the larger the video sequences will be, because all the small videos you have recently seen will start again to a large video sequence. This was in my opinion a waste of time. More worst if you click on the wrong hotspot you hear Henry Stauf's voice frequently and makes fun of you. He's a funny guy, but he really will get on your nerves. Luckily you have a small computer device for getting hints for your clues. Unfortunately most clues are bad anagram riddles. Even if you think outside of the box you wouldn't come up on the solution. So you have to click on "Help" frequently. Another plus of the small computer device is it can solved puzzles for you, if you need it. For some puzzles the hints are very unclear and you have to guess all the time how to play it. You even have a map on your device to see what rooms are unlocked in the mansion. Conclusion: If you want to be scared and solving logical puzzles, then play The 7th Guest. The sequel is unncessary, unscary and is not worth to play at least a few very good puzzles in the game.