Shivers

I grew up never finishing this game though I loved it. Now that it's here on GOG, here's my review. The Setup: You are about to have a horrible night. Your friends have dared you to spend the night in Professor Windlenot's Museum of the Strange and Unusual, a museum that was never opened as the owner and two teens vanished 15 years ago. The museum is reported to be haunted, and unfortunately for you, the reports are true. Once inside, to survive you must gather the 10 pots and matching talismans, and capture the evil Ixupi spirits before they steal your life essence. How it Looks: Personally I feel the game looks pretty good for a game from 1995. The locations of the museum have stuck with me for all these years and the quality is still high to me. This is one of those games where I'd love to see the map done in a recent engine. The only blemish is the Ixupi themselves, by today's standard they are cartoony and not very scary themselves, but this game makes up for that with the atmosphere. How it Sounds: Honestly, the game sounds great to me. The sound effects do their job, and the acting is solid enough. The stand out is the soundtrack through. Every room in the museum has a unique sound and song, and they are memorable. The planetarium is one of my favorites. How it Plays: It's a first person point and click puzzle adventure game. You navigate by clicking around the screen when the arrow changes. Puzzles are also solved like most other games like this. The catch is the Ixupi, as they steal your health and will cause a game over. To catch them, you must match the lid with the pot and then use it on the right Ixupi. You can only carry one pot or lid (unless you have the matching pair combined) at a time, and the locations are random aside from three pieces, so note taking will be helpful. Final Thoughts: I love this game, and always have, I love the setting and mood presented, and is an easy recommendation.

Despite having sunk many hours into this in the nineties when I was around eight years old, I actually don’t think I ever fully completed it back then. I think I got stuck on some of the more difficult puzzles (Chinese checkers and pinball for sure) and just kept backtracking. It wasn’t so easy to find support and solutions back then! I was thrilled when this game popped into my head the other day and I found it here, so bought it along with the second one which I never actually played. I just completed this one and loved it even more than I thought I would. I generally don’t enjoy dated/indie/retro style games but the nostalgia combined with my completionist drive got me hooked. Now I can’t wait to give the second one a go!

I loved this game when it first came out. I am so excited that GOG finally has this game in its catalog. Definitely worth it if you are on the fence, you won't be disappointed.

If you like point and clicks, this one is for you. 1. Awesome graphics for the time. 2. Awesome sense of wonder and exploration. 3. Awesome logic puzzles (for the most part, you won't need a walkthrough). 4. It's a little hard to figure out at first, but read the included manual (just the objective part) and you'll be okay!

My sister and I would watch our mom play this game for hours as kids back in the 90's, the cloth Ixupi scared the hell out of me then. I just got this and Shivers 2 for her birthday today as our old disc has been long gone and there seemed to be no way to play this again for years. So glad GOG picked these classics up it would've been a real shame if these gems were lost to time. You can play it "right out of the box" no messing around with settings required.