Overview (from the rulebook) Sweating Seven is a role-playing game following the story of one or more characters who have been infected with sweating sickness. Those characters have 240 hours left to live and their only hope is a doctor in a foreign kingdom who's been sequestered behind seven walls. The story follows them and those helping them as they race against the clock. User summary Using a guessing game similar to Battleship, players have to overcome obstacles - seven walls prepared by the GM.