Hi, if anyone is interested, I got VMware Player 16.0 "official" release working on Windows 7.
Download: http://69.112.236.57/nextcloud/index.php/s/RWKwBkLoFPdWz93
This is still largely untested, especially the VMware installer is flaky, but VMware itself works very well on my main Win7.
You're supposed to reboot right after the installation and then put contents of vmware16_win7 folder in VMware\VMware Player\x64.
The video:
Edit: Added the VMware Workstation installer. If license key registration fails, try to install VMware Workstation 15.x first, and then directly upgrade to 16.