Image credit: Vertigo Games

Welcome brethren of advancing years to this ancient house of reminiscences. Developer Trilobytes' seminal CD-ROM adventure The 7th Guest is being revived once more; evil toymaker Henry Stauf throwing open his doors to a new generation of unwitting visitors in a remake bound for Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PC on 4th June. A Switch version is also in the works, arriving "later".

The 7th Guest, if you're unfamiliar with this now three-decade-old release, was something of a genuine, honest-to-goodness killer app when it launched in 1993 - the game that, along with Myst, helped kickstart the CD-ROM revolution. At the time, its lavish pre-rendered environments (enabling you to glide around Stauf's wonderfully spooky mansion) were a sensation, as was the inclusion of digitised real-world performers, all camping it up something silly in FMV.…