Man" Sanger and Team Fat. Reception Reviews of the game upon initial release were mixed. After extensively praising the game's graphics, challenging puzzles, storyline, and atmosphere, as well as the lower amount of gratuitous gore when compared to The 7th Guest, a reviewer for Maximum concluded: "However, the bottom line is that 11th Hour is basically a more advanced version of 7th Guest". A reviewer for Next Generation also found the game much too similar to its predecessor, particularly as he considered the entire genre of puzzle adventures to be a waste of time. He also criticized that the game has long load times except when running on high-end computers. Steve Honeywell of Computer Game Review called it a "whopping disappointment". Arinn Dembo reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World. In 2010, UGO included the game in the article The 11 Weirdest Game Endings. By April 1995, Trilobyte planned to launch The 11th Hour with a shipment of 250,000 copies. However, by December, retailers in the United States had ordered 500,000 units of the game. According to Geoff Keighley, "The 11th Hour had the biggest ship-out of a PC game up until that point - nearly half a million units". The game was a commercial success, with sales of nearly 300,000 copies in the United States alone by May 1996. Awards The 11th Hour won the following awards: 1995 New Media Invision Awards - Gold-Games Strategy/Puzzle 1995 New Media Invision Awards - Bronze-Consumer Interactive Movies 1995 International Cindy Competition - Honorable Mention - Consumer Games 1995 CD-ROM Today "Rommie" Awards - Best Graphic Adventure References External links The rise and fall of Trilobyte - Detailed article on the company, including the making of The 11th Hour. 1995 video games Adventure games DOS games First-person adventure games Full motion video based games Interactive movie video games Cancelled 3DO Interactive Multiplayer games Classic Mac OS games MacOS games Psychological horror games Puzzle video games Rape in fiction ScummVM-supported games Single-player video games Video game sequels Video games developed in the United States Video games scored by George Sanger Video games set in the 1990s Video games set in the United States Virgin Interactive games Windows games Video games with alternate endings