The 11th Hour (computer game)
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| Developer(s) | Trilobyte |
| Publisher(s) | Virgin Interactive |
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| Designer(s) |
Rob Landeros Graeme Devine |
| Artist(s) | Robert Stein III |
| Writer(s) |
Matthew Costello David Wheeler |
| Composer(s) | George Sanger |
| Series | The 7th Guest |
| Engine | Groovie |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS |
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Windows Mac OS
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| Genre(s) | Interactive movie, puzzle adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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The 11th Hour is a 1995 interactive movie puzzle adventure game with a horror setting. It is the sequel to the 1993 game The 7th Guest. It was developed by Trilobyte and used a later version of the "Groovie" graphic engine than that used by The 7th Guest. The 11th Hour also features the music of George "The Fat Man" Sanger and Team Fat.
Overall, the gameplay is similar to its predecessor's with the same puzzle-based game play structure, but with the additional element of a treasure hunt.
The story takes place 60 years after the events of the first game. It is now 1995 and the player, as Carl Denning, is an investigative reporter for the television series "Case Unsolved". Robin Morales, his producer and lover, has mysteriously vanished while gathering background information surrounding a series of grisly murders and disappearances in the otherwise quiet little town of Harley-on-the-Hudson. Denning's only solid lead is a portable computer called the GameBook delivered by persons unknown to him postmarked Harley, NY.
Robin investigates a string of murders at Harley-on-the-Hudson over the last few years. She tals with Eileen Wiley, who was the only person publicly known to have survived an encounter with the mansion, but at the cost of her hand. Next she talks with Chief Martin and his acquaintances and finally the wheelchair bound Samantha, who reveals the sinister nature of Stauf mansion. Something had raped Samanatha and Eileen when they snuck inside as teens and made them pregnant. Samantha had a back alley abortion, while Eileen could not bring herself to do it. Her evil child Marie and Thornton's nurse was behind all the recent violence.
Hearing about Robin's activities, Marie pressures her husband Chuck Lynch to murder Robin. Instead Chuck kills Chief Martin by mistake. He takes all the evidence away to the mansion, but is attacked by Julia Heine who is possessed by Stauf. Robin ventures into the mansion, where she experienced ghostly visions and hauntings from her past, until she meets Stauf, who revealed that the murders were necessary to feed the house. Robin gives in to Stauf's enticement and is taken control of.
Carl refuses to give up on Robin and follows her cries upstairs to meet Stauf, who presents with him a faux game show called "Let’s Make a Real Deal". He offers Carl $600, which he can keep; or he can pay $200 a piece to reveal what is behind each of three doors. He first chooses to see what is behind door number two, which turns out to be a large TV. Next he pays to reveal Marie behind door number one. As Stauf tempts Carl with Marie's sexual prowess, Samantha appears on the TV, warning him not to give in to temptation, and to choose her. Finally, Robin is revealed behind door number three and conveys her love for Carl, pleading with him to choose her. Samantha urges Carl that choosing her will end Stauf and the house forever and choosing the others will doom him. The game player's choice affects the ending:
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