Shivers (1995)
Shivers is a 1995 point-and-click video game made by Sierra.
A dare from friends lands you alone, overnight, inside Professor Windlenot's Museum of the Strange and Unusual. The place never opened. Fifteen years ago the professor vanished, and so did two students who wandered in after him. Now the doors lock behind you. Shivers is a first-person puzzle adventure with no on-screen character and no combat, just empty halls full of clockwork riddles, hidden mechanisms, and a set of ancient vessels that were never meant to be disturbed. Marcia Bales builds the dread from silence and architecture, letting the museum itself do the haunting.
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What is Shivers about?
A dare from friends lands you alone, overnight, inside Professor Windlenot's Museum of the Strange and Unusual. The place never opened. Fifteen years ago the professor vanished, and so did two students who wandered in after him. Now the doors lock behind you. Shivers is a first-person puzzle adventure with no on-screen character and no combat, just empty halls full of clockwork riddles, hidden mechanisms, and a set of ancient vessels that were never meant to be disturbed. Marcia Bales builds the dread from silence and architecture, letting the museum itself do the haunting.
When was Shivers released?
Shivers was released on 31 December 1995.
Who made Shivers?
Shivers was made by Sierra.
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A few thoughts on Shivers
For the same after-dark, trapped-in-a-cursed-building shiver aimed at brave younger readers, the pick-a-path Goosebumps books fit. Give Yourself Goosebumps - Checkout Time at the Dead-End Hotel and Tick Tock, You're Dead! both drop you somewhere you should not be and dare you to find the way out.
Spend the night in a haunted museum
Shivers locks you alone in an abandoned museum after dark, freeing trapped spirits with every wrong move. That dare-you-to-stay dread runs through the great atmospheric puzzle-horrors, where an empty building full of secrets is the real monster and you cannot leave until you solve it.
Pick your own path to a scare
The one-more-room, one-more-risk structure has a natural cousin in the branching horror gamebook. If you loved deciding how deep to push into Windlenot's museum, these choose-your-fate reads put the same nerve to the test, where a single bad turn drops you straight into doom.