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Shivers Retro PC Game Review | Sierra's 1995 Abandonware Horror Adventure Game

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Shivers 1995 point and click Adventure abandonware PC game review.

Shivers is a 1995 point and click adventure PC game from Sierra Online. The opening FMV shows us that we're playing as a teenager being dared to spend the night in the spooky haunted museum at the top of the hill.

Abandonware PC game Shivers gives you nothing off the bat. Right from the start the whole of "Professor Windlenot's Museum of the Strange and Unusual" is given to you to explore, and you’ve got one endless night to explore it. By exploring Professor Windlenot’s museum you stumble into the main objective of the Shivers adventure game. 15 years prior, two teenagers broke into the museum just like you, but they accidentally opened up nine clay pots, each one containing an evil spirit called an Ixupi. Since then the museum was condemned and left to rot until you showed up.

For a 1995 PC game, I can’t knock Shivers for story or setting. Sierra On-line never shied away from grisly stuff in their PC games and Shivers fits pretty well into their 1995 horror adventure game catalogue. The spooky museum is actually fairly atmospheric. It’s kinda 90s Goosebumps atmosphere compared to something modern like SOMA.

Shivers PC adventure game plays out in first person, like Myst or The 7th Guest. Shivers feels primitive to be honest. I was never a fan of this kind of gameplay but objectively it doesn’t affect the game. Shivers is a memorable adventure game and a different PC game for that presentation, so fair play. As I was playing Shivers PC game I was struck by how much work this would have been.  Shivers is made up of over 2500 hand-drawn paintings which were all scanned in. There’s digital work, blue-screened actors and 3D modelling going on, so you can’t knock the work Sierra put into Shivers PC adventure game. Considering Shivers is running in 640x480 they’ve crammed a lot into those PC game pixels.

The sound and music in Shivers PC were well-received at the time and for good reason. Taking advantage of the CD-ROM format, the music in Shivers PC game is one of the best things about it. All sound and music was undertaken by one guy, Guy Whitmore, who went on to make the music for the Blood games and No-one Lives Forever.

The area that the Shivers abandonware PC game starts to fall down is the game. Shivers's museum is like a maze and moving around gets tedious after a while. You have to revisit the same old places time and again and it's not like you can WASD your way around; you're clicking about 500 million times. I said before that objectively this Myst style doesn’t objectively ruin the game but you’re more aware of the backtracking when you’re clicking a million times.

Shivers puzzles are a mixed bag.  Some of them are logical, or you can at least figure them out. But the organ, the harp are absolute garbage. Not all of Shivers PC game puzzles are like this, in fact Resident Evil 3 copied one of them so it shows there’s good in here but even the smallest nugget of poo can ruin even the biggest bowl of ice cream.

To trap the Ixupi you need to find the right clay pot and the right lid, for the right Ixupi. If you have the right pot but the wrong lid, you have to pick which one to carry. The locations of the pots, lids and Ixupi in Shivers abandonware game is random, so you’ve got no clear direction at any point. Once you’ve finally caught one, the process starts again. This is easily one of the, if not the, most tedious gameplay loops in any PC adventure game I’ve played. It's not about hating on old games. I like having to take physical notes, draw little maps etc. it’s part of the old school way of playing retro PC games but the randomness twinned with the tedium in finding your way about got to be too much for us.

If you want to play abandonware Shivers, this PC game is not available on GOG or Steam. Shivers is complete abandonware. You’ll need to track down a physical copy like we did. You can find it on abandonware websites, even then I doubt you'll get it running easily without an old PC. In closing, the Mrs enjoyed Shivers for the nostalgia. We enjoyed playing a PC game together and it was fun to play a game I’d ever even heard of let alone played. If you’re new to PC adventure games there’s two dozen games I’d recommend before Shivers. Still, good for a spookout.

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Raff [作成者] 2019年3月26日 3時49分

By the way, I am 56

Raff [作成者] 2019年3月26日 3時47分

Old lad

Bobby 2019年3月22日 4時17分

'lad' there's a big difference - that you can't work out, clearly. Between a video -which I wasn't even referencing, and text - which I highlighted how many times to you?? Instead you turn a minor issue into 'I must win this debate'. I support Gaming and companies like GoG give us DRM free Gaming and resurrect old titles so that we can continue to enjoy the legacy games of the past. I don't need to throw infantile remarks about like yourself, suffice to say I've been having for nearly 30 years. I own physical copies of nearly all the best titles in gaming -going on approx 1000. And I have a couple of legacy PCs that I built going back the same period. Nice to be called a lad when your 55 yrs old. Must be because of the fresh air driving I do, not because of stress lines from the likes of the DVLA etc.
This could have been handled a lot more maturely than it was. But that's the desensitized internet and people on it... So sad.

Raff [作成者] 2019年3月21日 15時26分

On the video page it now says -

"A Steam member has let it known that this game is now on GOG, so is no longer considered abandonware.

Please do not pirate when you can buy. "

Raff [作成者] 2019年3月21日 15時20分

If information that was true at time of creation changes after something has been produced, then the original doesn't have to be changed. Because at that point it was fact. You also can't edit a YT video after it is uploaded lad.

Think of literally every film, tv program, audiobook, magazine etc that has ever been made. Notice, for example, how there isn't a 15th revision of Games Master from 1993 because the sales numbers have changed?

But because you have spent so much time on your comments, you know what I'll do? I'll add a comment in the info box that the game is now available on GOG.

Whatever you do, please don't call the police. I'm already on a strike 2 for not telling the DVLA that I no longer keep my car in the garage overnight.

Bobby 2019年3月21日 12時43分

"this PC game is not available on GOG or Steam. Shivers is complete abandonware. "

So what is this then? https://www.gog.com/game/shivers Abandonware you pay for!? Who is being stupid now. You're the one who said it's not available on GoG. Sending out and promoting piracy when the I.P. is not abandoned is a dangerous path to tread on. If you had any sense you would promote this (great) game and say that it's available on GoG. I can't understand your stupidity and denial.....no point in going on about it, clearly. "The door is open...NO it's NOT" sums this up

Raff [作成者] 2019年3月21日 10時34分

Are you mental?

Bobby 2019年3月21日 8時45分

Obviously, then you need to edit this out (The point)

quote; "If you want to play abandonware Shivers, this PC game is not available on GOG or Steam. Shivers is complete abandonware. You’ll need to track down a physical copy like we did. You can find it on abandonware websites, even then I doubt you'll get it running easily without an old PC. In closing, the Mrs enjoyed Shivers for the nostalgia. We enjoyed playing a PC game together and it was fun to play a game I’d ever even heard of let alone played. If you’re new to PC adventure games there’s two dozen games I’d recommend before Shivers. Still, good for a spookout."

Otherwise you are breaking the law.

Raff [作成者] 2019年3月21日 4時22分

Ackchyually, this video is older than when Shivers was for sale on GOG.

At time of publishing, it wasn't available.

Bobby 2019年3月1日 6時14分

[quote]If you want to play abandonware Shivers, this PC game is not available on GOG . Shivers is complete abandonware. [/quote]

Actually, Shivers isn't abandonware. It's legally for sale on GOG https://www.gog.com/game/shivers

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