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The Quivering

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

Steam

Adventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

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.

The Quivering is an Adventure game released in 2015, priced at $0.79, with an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Mixed review sentiment (68% of 22 reviews).

0
playing now
68%
positive of 22 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$0.79
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 10:00 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

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 100% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 76% of 28,771 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

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

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 9 of 19 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220152026Week of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 10:00 — 0 players
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

7902026-06-01 — 79 pageviews2026-06-05 — 51 pageviews2026-06-09 — 15 pageviews2026-06-13 — 31 pageviews2026-06-17 — 52 pageviews2026-06-21 — 42 pageviews2026-06-25 — 21 pageviews2026-06-29 — 22 pageviews2026-07-03 — 19 pageviews2026-07-07 — 21 pageviews2026-07-11 — 16 pageviews2026-07-15 — 17 pageviews2026-07-19 — 13 pageviews2026-07-23 — 12 pageviews2026-07-27 — 3 pageviews2026-07-31 — 4 pageviews2026-08-04 — 9 pageviews2026-08-08 — 7 pageviews2026-08-12 — 5 pageviews2026-08-16 — 9 pageviews2026-08-20 — 8 pageviews2026-08-24 — 20 pageviews2026-08-28 — 9 pageviews2026-09-01 — 5 pageviews2026-09-05 — 9 pageviews2026-09-09 — 9 pageviews2026-09-13 — 7 pageviews2026-09-17 — 5 pageviews2026-09-21 — 8 pageviews2026-09-25 — 7 pageviews2026-09-29 — 5 pageviews2026-10-03 — 10 pageviews2026-10-07 — 7 pageviews2026-10-10 — 3 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

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Census log

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

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