Hashihime of the Old Book Town (2018) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Hashihime of the Old Book Town

A highly-acclaimed, psychedelic BL murder-mystery from indie developer ADELTA!

0 13 August 2018

What Hashihime of the Old Book Town is

Hashihime of the Old Book Town is an adventure game developed by ADELTA and released in 2018. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on KiriKiri.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Jinbochou, TokyoJune 1922, Taisho Era The Rainy Season Tamamori came to Tokyo with his sights set on getting accepted to the Imperial University. However, he doesn't pass the entrance exam, and is so undisciplined and wrapped up in endless fantasies that he's kicked out of his boarding house after only two years. Through a stroke of luck, Tamamori begins to live and work at Umebachidou, a used book store. There, he enjoys whiling away his time as a "student preparing for entrance exams" and taking advantage of friends who are also from his hometown. But one right after the other, mysterious deaths befall those friends and, realizing he's been repeating the same rainy three days over and…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are drama, erotic, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Hashihime of the Old Book Town holds a critic score of 0 out of 100. That places it above 0% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 69 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Hashihime of the Old Book Town launched on 13 August 2018, within three weeks of Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition, Dead Cells, Divinity: Original Sin II - Definitive Edition and The Messenger. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition, Dead Cells, Divinity: Original Sin II - Definitive Edition, The Messenger.

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