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The Quivering

Charybdis Ltd · Alternative Software Ltd · 2015-01-28

Steam

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 1999 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 1999 (DOS)

Classic Retro point and click adventure from yesteryear. Set in the dark and foreboding village of Warty Hollow, The Quivering follows the fortunes of young Spud, as he tries to save his uncle, Olivetti Franken-Stamp, from the diabolical spell cast upon him by the big cheese from Hell, Big D.

0
playing now
67%
positive of 21 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$0.79
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 14:00 UTC (census sample)

The Quivering is a single-player point-and-click video game, developed by Charybdis and released by Alternative Software on CD-ROM for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. The game was later re-released for Steam on January 28, 2015. It is a sequel to Charybdis' earlier 1996 game Spud!.

Health check

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  • · Top 90% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.79-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.79 at Steam (2021-09-25) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 10 of 22 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$3.99$0.792015-01-282026-08-242015-01-28 — best price $3.592016-10-24 — best price $1.992017-11-24 — best price $1.652018-06-21 — best price $2.392018-11-21 — best price $2.392019-06-25 — best price $1.792020-04-21 — best price $3.592020-06-10 — best price $3.592020-07-07 — best price $3.592020-07-31 — best price $3.592020-08-28 — best price $3.592020-09-20 — best price $3.052020-10-22 — best price $3.592020-11-13 — best price $3.592020-12-03 — best price $3.992020-12-25 — best price $3.992021-01-15 — best price $3.992021-02-07 — best price $3.992021-03-13 — best price $3.592021-04-09 — best price $3.992021-05-02 — best price $3.592021-05-25 — best price $3.992021-07-12 — best price $0.872021-10-11 — best price $3.592021-12-21 — best price $3.992022-02-09 — best price $3.992022-05-05 — best price $3.992022-07-07 — best price $3.992022-09-22 — best price $3.352022-12-12 — best price $0.792023-01-30 — best price $3.992023-07-31 — best price $0.792024-04-03 — best price $3.472024-07-22 — best price $0.792024-10-11 — best price $0.872025-03-24 — best price $0.792025-11-03 — best price $3.992026-07-22 — best price $3.392026-08-24 — best price $0.79
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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