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Russell Stone is a Jewish Rabbi at a poor synagogue in New York City. He is a devout man with a problem. Membership is way down and he lacks the funds to keep his synagogue open. Things are looking very bleak, and he has grown progressively more cynical and bitter with the passage of time.

The Shivah is a point & click, adventure and indie game developed by and published by Wadjet Eye Games.
Released on November 21st 2013 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 828 reviews of which 672 were positive and 156 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.7 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS: Win 2000 or higher
  • Processor: Pentium or higher
  • Memory: 64 MB RAM
  • Graphics: 256-colour: 266 Mhz or above
  • Storage: 150 MB available space
  • Sound Card: Supports all DirectX-compatible sound cards
MacOS
  • OS: 10.11
  • Graphics: 640x360, 1.8 Ghz system
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu, Debian, Arch
  • Processor: 2.7 GHz Dual Core (and above, can run on single core)
  • Graphics: OpenGL, DirectX 5
  • Sound Card: Alsa/PulseAudio/DSP

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Feb. 2025
The game is good and worth giving it a shot, it's a short game can be done easily 2ish hours give or take. The story is worth it for the short while it lasts.
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Dec. 2024
This game is just okay. Dave Gilbert is one of the best developers of point and click games, and this is his first effort. He excels at dialogue and characterization, and the story's main character seems like a real, complex human being. But the story is lacking, the locations are limited, and you can finish the game in under 2 hours (the major puzzles involve figuring out computer passwords). The story deals with Judaism, but you don't have to be Jewish or a believer to enjoy the game. My advice is to get this game if it's on sale, but it's not a must buy. 5/10.
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July 2024
This was a good game, even if it was pretty short. It's about a Rabbi who questions his faith and solves a mystery involving one of the prior members of his congregation, with whom he was not on good terms. Not a whole lot else to say without giving away too much. Only beef I had was that the sound quality of the voice acting was pretty low. The microphones didn't have any pop filters, etc. I hear this is one of the developer's first ever games. So, I'm not without understanding. Overall, it's a fun retro mystery adventure game.
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June 2024
I enjoyed the game. I am actually getting back into my Jewish faith and have been dealing with a lot of death in my family recently so this has been an interesting game to say the least lol. Sometimes I found it hard to know what to do next but it wasn't overly complicated and was fairly short of a game.
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June 2024
As is often the case, I heard about this game largely through reputation: An indie game made by three guys? An adventure game based around a Jewish rabbi being a detective? Such a setup may sound bizarre on paper but somehow it sounds crazy enough to work. And that is enough to pique my interest. So I went to Steam, found the game and played it all the way through - And what did I think of it? Well for starters it is terribly short. But, as is often the case with adventure games, the game is saved by some superb writing. Indeed, the plot has enough clout to see it all the way through and Rabbi Russell Stone is a character that undergoes significant changes throughout to make him a compelling one. And the voice acting is good enough, for an indie game, to make the rest of the cast believable. However what I find particularly interesting about this game is that it is a game that has some positive things to say about religion. This is indeed rare in gaming as religion is treated in gaming as either inspirations behind some truly lousy games (Super Noah's Ark 3d) or as the force opposing the PC (90% of all JRPGs ever made). That being said, I can't think of any game where the PC is a man of a religious faith who faces down corruption in his religion and, by the end of the game, learns something that restores his dwindling faith. Does religion have a place in gaming? Well one would think so provided it's done right - and in that sense, the Shivah presents a convincing case. Original post: https://gametumour.blogspot.com/2014/05/what-did-jew-say.html?m=0
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The Shivah
7.7
672
156
Online players
2
Publisher
Wadjet Eye Games
Release 21 Nov 2013
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