History VideoGame / Shivers1995

Not to be confused with the classic Creator/DavidCronenberg film of the same name.

* EvilElevator: Subverted. The elevator music is jaunty and hilariously incongruous to the rest of the game. It even turned up in ''[[VideoGame/{{Phantasmagoria2}} Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh]]''.

** It gets creepier: the shadow has a DummiedOut animation showing it to be [[CanonCharacterAllAlong the Stone Ixupi]]!
* LiveActionCutscene: The game begins and ends with live-action cutscenes of your "friends" locking you on the museum grounds and arriving to find you, respectively. There are also three ghost scenes that use live actors, as well as Windlenit's film used to open the door to the Subterranean World.

* TheDarknessGazesBack: [[spoiler:Sometimes, when returning from the Subterranean World back into Main Entry Hall via secret passage, you can see sparkly red eyes and hear growl. While common theory assume it's Ixupi that can't properly manifest, it remains unkown what exactly this supposed to be.]]
* DeadlyPrank: The protagonist's friends lock them up inside of the museum as a prank, and the spirits within then try to kill them. The trope obviously becomes literal if the player loses.

* KarmaHoudini: While you succeed in sealing most of the Ixupi, the 3 that killed the professor and the two teens (the Stone, Jade, and Fire Ixupi) are long gone, having escaped into the world years ago after using the three victims' life forces to fully free themselves from their tethers to their canopic jars.

* BonusDungeon: Fortune Teller Room and Professor Windlenot's Bedroom are both these. They are dead ends without any places to hide pods or talismans, so you can finish game without entering them at all. They contain clues and hints however, [[spoiler: as well as the pot containing Merrick's soul.]]

* AdrenalineMakeover: Beth is written as a foolish sort of girl with a crush on Merrick. She slacks off in school and writes silly notes to friends during class. However, despite being trapped in the museum and scared out of her mind, Beth starts solving puzzles and leaving messages for Merrick. She tells you that she "almost solved the final riddle". It is shown that she is very smart at math and physics, but often doesn't apply herself in school.
* AlwaysNight: Justified, as the whole game takes place in one night.

* BarredFromTheAfterlife: This is final fate of Prof. Windlenot, Merrick and Beth. You are trying to avoid this. Ixupi are attacking you not only to consume your life essence - each one wants to use your soul as replacement in his vessel - this way they can escape into the world. If it makes things any better, player's character can relase imprisoned souls.
* BigBad: The Ixupi are the evil spirits that were accidentally released from their prison, and now haunt the museum and suck away the life force of others. The protagonist must seal each of them away.

* BonusDungeon: Fortune Teller Room and Professor Windlenot's Bedroom both are these. They are dead ends without any places to hide pods or talismans, so you can finish game without entering them at all. They contain clues and hints however, [[spoiler: as well as the pot containing Merrick's soul.]]
* BottomlessBladder: There is only one toilet in the entire museum, and it's all the way upstairs, past a handful of puzzles. Windlenot has a bedroom in one of the museum's towers, accessible only by elevator, and he lives there full time. If he ever had to pee he'd spend twenty minutes just getting to the bathroom.

* CloudCuckooLander: Windlenot. Judging from the exhibits he managed to set up before the Ixupi escaped and took his life, it's a shame that he died before AncientAstronauts began airing because he'd fit right in on that show.

* CloudCuckooLander: Windlenot. Judging from the exhibits he managed to set up before the Ixupi escaped and took his life, it's a shame that he died before AncientAliens began airing because he'd fit right in on that show.

* CreepyCircusMusic: In the "Puzzles" exhibit.
* CreepyMonotone: The voiceovers for the exhibits, as well as the menu sound effects.
* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Why did you release the Ixupi, Merrick and Beth?

* BraggingRightsReward: After you beat the game, you get the opportunity to walk through the museum without fear of being killed by spirits.

* LiveActionCutscene: The game begins and ends with live-action cutscenes of your "friends" locking you on the museum grounds and arriving to find you, respectively. There are also three ghost scenes that use live actors.

* StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale: In Windlenot's diary we read that Beth, who has a crush on Merrick, has been following him after school. Windlenot thinks it's very funny, because at the same time, Merrick is following him! He also remarks that Beth is "quite pretty" and finds the situation delightful.

* AbsentMindedProfessor: Prof. Windlenot.

* BonusDungeon: Fortune Teller Room and Professor Windlenot's Bedroom both are these. They are dead ends without any places to hide pods or talismans, so you can finish game without entering them at all. They contain clues and hints however.

* ConvenientCranny: Subverted, in that the crannies turn out not to be so convenient. [[spoiler:Merrick hides inside a hollow lion, but because he is clutching the jade skull he is killed anyway. Beth hides in the basement wall but she is eventually caught by fire. Windlenot is seen in the underground cavern, but the walls are made of stone and it is stone that kills him; With the last of his strength, he draws the symbol of the Ixupi[[note]]It's never referred to as the symbol of the Ixupi, but it's found multiple places in the Tomb of the Ixupi and is on the cover of the Black Book which tells the legend of the Ixupi[[/note]]]]

* ConvenientCranny: Subverted, in that the crannies turn out not to be so convenient. [[spoiler:Merrick hides inside a hollow lion, but because he is clutching the jade skull he is killed anyway. Beth hides in the basement wall but she is eventually caught by fire. Windlenot is seen in the underground cavern, but the walls are made of stone and it is stone that kills him; With the last of his strength, he draws the symbol of the Ixupi[[NOTE]]It's never referred to as the symbol of the Ixupi, but it's found multiple places in the Tomb of the Ixupi and is on the cover of the Black Book which tells the legend of the Ixupi[[/NOTE]]]]