The 7th Guest was a landmark 1993 PC game from Trilobyte, one of the first games to make extensive use of full motion video (FMV) and one of the best-selling CD-ROM titles of its era. Vertigo Games, the studio behind The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners, released a full VR remake in October 2023 for Meta Quest 2/3, PSVR2, and SteamVR. This is not a simple port of the original: the game was rebuilt as a VR-native experience with redesigned puzzles, modern volumetric video capture for the ghost characters, and full room-scale exploration of Stauf's mansion.

The story: Henry Stauf was a vagrant who gained the gift of toy-making from a mysterious force. His toys inexplicably caused the deaths of children who received them. Stauf retreated to his mansion and disappeared. Years later, six people are invited to the estate for a dinner party — and never seen again. You explore the abandoned mansion, encounter the ghost-like memories of those six guests, solve the room-based puzzles that Stauf has left throughout the house, and uncover what happened to them and to Stauf himself.

The volumetric video capture of the ghost characters — live actors filmed with specialist cameras to produce fully three-dimensional ghost-like figures — is one of the game's technical highlights. CGMagazine called it "something on a whole new level." The characters are campy in the tradition of the original, but they are rendered as fully three-dimensional presences you can walk around and examine. The combination of the restoration mechanic, volumetric ghosts, and puzzle variety drew consistent praise across reviewers.

The 7th Guest VR carries a Mature (ESRB M) rating. In the UK context this maps broadly to PEGI 16. The horror content is atmospheric — ghostly imagery, decayed environments, unsettling sound design — rather than graphic or gory. It is designed to be frightening rather than violent. Several reviewers described it as "spooky but not scary" at the extremes of fear, though this is subjective.