Henry Stauf's mansion has been rebuilt from scratch, and it is nastier than ever. Mirage 7 fans who enjoy atmospheric puzzle games will feel right at home here, but make no mistake: The 7th Guest Remake, developed by Vertigo Games and Exkee and released June 4, 2026, is its own beast entirely. The puzzles are brand new, the mansion shifts around you using optical illusions, and the ghostly cast is now rendered in full 3D volumetric video. This guide covers everything you need to clear every room, collect all 88 collectibles, and grab all 28 achievements without hitting a dead end.
What is The 7th Guest Remake and how is it different from the original?
The 1993 CD-ROM original was a landmark in horror adventure gaming. This 2026 release is not a remaster. Vertigo Games built new 3D environments, replaced the flat FMV footage with volumetric video performances, and redesigned every puzzle from the ground up. The 2019 25th Anniversary Edition simply cleaned up the original; this Remake shares its DNA with The 7th Guest VR from 2023 instead.
You play as Ego, the amnesiac Seventh Guest, waking up in Stauf's deserted mansion decades after six invited guests disappeared. Each room you solve reveals more of what happened that fatal night through ghostly visions of the guests: Martine Burden (Lust), Edward and Elinor Knox (Gluttony), Julia Heine (Vanity), Brian Dutton (Greed), and Hamilton Temple (Pride). At the center of it all is Henry Stauf, a former murderer and vagrant whose name is literally an anagram of Faust, and whose demonic pact required a seventh soul to complete.
Stauf's foyer sets the tone
How does mansion progression work?
Rooms unlock as you solve puzzles. The in-game map highlights accessible areas so you always know where you can go next. The structure follows a loose five-phase arc:
- Ground Floor Start (Foyer, Dining Room, Kitchen, Library)
- Crypt Route (Corridor, Basement, Storage Room)
- Second Floor (Guest Bedrooms, Game Room, Bathroom)
- Mid Mansion (Music Room, Nursery, Workroom, Burden's Room)
- Final Act (Attic Landing, Attic Crawl Space, Attic Chapel, Attic Ritual Room)
The mansion is non-linear once rooms open up, but there is a hard point of no return. Once you solve the Shadow Symbol Puzzle in the Attic Chapel and open the final door to the Attic Ritual Room, you cannot go back to collect anything you missed. Grab every collectible before walking through that door.
Puzzle solutions: room by room
Every puzzle below is confirmed for the 2026 Remake. Where exact solutions exist, they are listed. Where the puzzle requires visual steps, the method is described.
Dining Room
The Table Tiles puzzle asks you to create pairs of all 4 symbols: Fish, Boy, Chicken, and Donkey. Start by placing the Chicken symbol beneath the pre-solved Boy symbol, then work outward from there.
Heine's Room
- Path Puzzle: Navigate the path grid to reach the exit.
- Drinking Game Puzzle: The solution sequence is 2-2-2-2.
- Sliding Coffins Puzzle: Four-step sliding sequence (follow the visual steps in-game).
Temple's Room
- Cups and Balls Puzzle: Use the Spirit Lantern to identify which cup hides the ball before committing to a choice.
- Trunk Sliders Puzzle: Slide the trunks to clear the path.
Dutton's Room
- Wardrobe Puzzle: Arrange items as indicated by the room's visual cues.
- Money Bags Puzzle: Three-step arrangement puzzle.
- Trophy Puzzle: Three-step solution sequence.
- Marble Safe Puzzle: Marble arrangement logic puzzle in the corner of the room.
Knox's Room
- Comptometer Puzzle: Input the correct values on the mechanical calculator.
- Model Railway Puzzle: Four-step sequence to route the train correctly.
- Alphabet Blocks Puzzle: Arrange the blocks as shown on the board, then shine the Spirit Lantern on the board to confirm.
Library
- Clock Puzzle: Set the clock to 4:15.
- Bookshelves Puzzle: Two-step shelf arrangement.
Kitchen
- Bottles Puzzle:
- Left Square: 7
- Middle Square: Top Left 9, Top Right 2, Bottom Left 4, Bottom Right 9
- Right Square: 8
- Scales Puzzle:
- Left: 2-3-5
- Middle: 3-3-4
- Right: 2-2-6
Game Room
- Bottles Puzzle: Clear the bottles on the bar to reveal a hidden coin behind them.
- Billiard Table Puzzle: Sink the balls in the correct sequence.
- Chessboard Puzzle: Chess-based logic puzzle near the cue rack.
Burden's Room
- Gem Box Puzzle: Arrange gems to match the pattern.
- Gem Bust Puzzle: Gem placement on the bust.
- Dancing Lovers Puzzle: Use the Spirit Lantern to activate the correct tiles.
Nursery
- Tea Party Puzzle: Use the guillotine to swap doll heads onto correct doll bodies. The eyes turn red when a head is correctly matched. Place each completed doll on its correct seat.
Music Room
- Vases Puzzle: Four-step arrangement sequence.
- Harpsichord Puzzle: Play these keys from left to right: 6-4-6-4-5-4-2-3-1.
- Music Box Puzzle: Activate the music box mechanism.
Basement
- Swan Tiles Puzzle: Tile arrangement puzzle.
- Pawns Puzzle: Chess pawn movement logic.
Bathroom
- Roach Hotel Puzzle: Lure roaches from three sources: the faucet, the bathtub (pull the plug), and the sink (pull both plugs). You can only move one roach at a time. See the missable achievement section below for the roach-killing requirement tied to this puzzle.
Attic Landing
- Miniature House Puzzle: Interact with the miniature house to solve the arrangement.
Attic Chapel
- Shadow Symbol Puzzle: The final puzzle before the point of no return. Solve it only after collecting everything.
Harpsichord key order: 6-4-6-4-5-4-2-3-1
How to find all 88 collectibles without missing any
There are 88 collectibles split across five types: 50 Coins, 12 Chronicles, 10 Records, 9 Photographs, and 7 Music Boxes. Collecting everything in a single run is the only way to get the full set of collectible achievements.
A few locations that are easy to miss:
- Kitchen dumbwaiter coin: Press the cracked tile on the right side of the dumbwaiter to open the hatch, send it up, and collect the coin from the bottom.
- Game Room bar coin: Clear the bottles at the lower right of the bar to reveal the coin hidden behind them.
- Basement shelf coin: Check the shelf directly above the wooden airplane on the workbench.
- Stauf's Bedroom: Contains 2 Coins, 2 Photographs, 1 Chronicle, 1 Music Box, and 1 Record, making it one of the densest collectible rooms in the game.
What are the missable achievements and how do you avoid losing them?
There are 10 missable achievements. The most important ones to plan around:
Everyone for himself (no auto-solve): Complete the entire game without using the Spirit Board in the Dining Room to auto-solve any puzzle. The Spirit Board is the Remake's equivalent of the original Hint Book auto-solve. Using it even once locks you out of this achievement. Use the puzzle solutions in this guide instead.
Crazy, sick and MEAN! (Stauf's painting): After solving the first set of rooms, head upstairs in the Foyer and shine the Spirit Lantern on Stauf's painting for a few seconds. Easy to miss if you walk past it.
I've got Skeletons in My Closet (secret record): Find the Secret Record in the Music Room and play it on the gramophone in the same room. The record is not part of the standard collectible set.
What a dump! (kill 5 roaches): During the Roach Hotel Puzzle in the Bathroom, kill 5 roaches by squishing them or luring them to spiders. No roaches spawn after the puzzle is solved, so this is your only window.
You can't have him (final battle): During the Board Game Puzzle in the Attic Ritual Room, take out 7 of Stauf's souls using your own souls before defeating him.
How does the Spirit Board (Hint Book) system work?
The Spirit Board sits in the Dining Room and functions as the game's hint and auto-solve system, carrying forward the Hint Book mechanic from the 1993 original. You must activate a puzzle in the world before the Spirit Board offers guidance for it. Hints are tiered, and the final option solves the puzzle automatically.
The catch: auto-solving skips the volumetric story cutscene tied to that room. Use it and you miss the narrative payoff. Use it even once and the no-auto-solve achievement is gone permanently.
The practical approach is to use the puzzle solutions in this guide for anything you are stuck on, and treat the Spirit Board as a last resort only for puzzles that have no clean logical solution (if any carry randomized elements from the original design).
What does the VR cross-access deal include?
Owners of The 7th Guest VR on Steam or PlayStation receive the Remake at no additional cost at launch. Buying the Remake on Steam or PlayStation 5 gets you free access to The 7th Guest VR on the corresponding platform. The Remake itself costs $19.99 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. Nintendo Switch releases later in 2026 with no exact date confirmed yet.
Spirit Board: use hints, not auto-solve
Remake vs. original: what actually changed?
The Remake is a standalone experience. You do not need any familiarity with the original to follow the story or solve the puzzles. If you have played the original, you will recognize the room names, the characters, and some structural echoes in the puzzle design, but nothing you remember will give you a mechanical advantage.
For fans of puzzle games broadly, the Remake sits comfortably in the logic-puzzle tradition while wrapping everything in a genuinely unsettling horror atmosphere that most pure puzzle games do not attempt.
The full suite of guides, tips, and walkthroughs for the game lives in the Mirage 7 guides collection. If this walkthrough helped you get through Stauf's mansion in one piece, that is where to go next.