Shivers
In Shivers, an adventure puzzle game designed by Marcia Bales, the player takes a dare from friends to spend a night in professor Windlenot's "Museum of the Strange and Unusual". The museum had yet to be…
Shivers is an adventure developed by Sierra, released 31 December 1995 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Shivers is
Shivers is an adventure game developed by Sierra and released in 1995. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In Shivers, an adventure puzzle game designed by Marcia Bales, the player takes a dare from friends to spend a night in professor Windlenot's "Museum of the Strange and Unusual". The museum had yet to be opened and has been abandoned and forgotten ever since the professor has mysteriously disappeared 15 years ago, along with 2 students who are suspected to have wandered inside the museum. A collection of ancient South American vessels, believed to contain evil spirits, are removed from their display, opened and scattered all around the museum, with the spirits lurking in every corner. It is your task to find all the matching vessel parts, and capture them again before they can entirely…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Shivers holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 27% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
Shivers launched on 31 December 1995, within three weeks of Suikoden, Neo Turf Masters, Tales of Phantasia and Screamer. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Suikoden, Neo Turf Masters, Tales of Phantasia, Screamer.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Shivers yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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