Higurashi When They Cry series
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Ch.1 Onikakushi-hen
On a certain day in June, someone dies, and someone else goes missing. The series of deaths is connected to the upheaval surrounding the dam construction project. A murder case that was covered up is being…
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Ch.1 Onikakushi-hen is a visual novel developed by 07th Expansion, released 10 August 2002 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Ch.1 Onikakushi-hen is
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Ch.1 Onikakushi-hen is a visual novel game developed by 07th Expansion and released in 2002. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
On a certain day in June, someone dies, and someone else goes missing. The series of deaths is connected to the upheaval surrounding the dam construction project. A murder case that was covered up is being reenacted. Is it a conspiracy? A coincidence? Or perhaps a curse?
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are comedy, drama, horror and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Higurashi When They Cry series
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Ch.1 Onikakushi-hen is the first of 107 entries we hold in the Higurashi When They Cry series. The next entry was Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Ch.2 Watanagashi-hen in 2002.
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What it launched against
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Ch.1 Onikakushi-hen launched on 10 August 2002, within three weeks of Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, Mafia, Syberia and Medieval: Total War.
Released around the same time: Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, Mafia, Syberia, Medieval: Total War.
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