Shivers (PC)

GameSpot editors' review

• CNET editors' rating: 3.0 stars Good
  Detailed editors' rating
  Overall score: 6.6 (3.0 stars)

• Reviewed by:
  Ron Dulin
• Reviewed on: 05/01/1996
• Updated on: 05/01/2000
• Released on: 09/30/1995
• Originally published on GameSpot: Shivers (PC) Review

A surprising change from the typical Sierra blueprint, this graphic adventure aimed at teens is more like Myst or The 7th Guest than Mystery House or King's Quest VII, offering an intricately detailed world to explore and plenty of classic puzzles to solve.

Shivers is set in Professor Windlenot's Museum of the Strange and Unusual, an abandoned collection of strange artifacts from around the world. It seems you've been dared to spend the night in the dilapidated old museum, which was never open to the public due to a bizarre incident that took place many years ago. Two teenagers and the professor himself disappeared under unknown circumstances, and you must solve the mystery if you're to survive until dawn.

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