Higurashi When They Cry series
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou: Hinamizawa Teiryuujo
Two students living in Hinamizawa, Rika Furude, and Mion Sonozaki, rest at a bus stop on a rainy day and wait for the bus to arrive. Some employees soon join them, who are working on a project that will build…
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou: Hinamizawa Teiryuujo is a visual novel developed by 07th Expansion, released 14 August 2014 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou: Hinamizawa Teiryuujo is
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou: Hinamizawa Teiryuujo is a visual novel game developed by 07th Expansion and released in 2014. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on NScripter.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Two students living in Hinamizawa, Rika Furude, and Mion Sonozaki, rest at a bus stop on a rainy day and wait for the bus to arrive. Some employees soon join them, who are working on a project that will build a dam in Hinamizawa but result in the village's destruction. As the group makes their acquaintance, they talk about a phenomenon related to the strange deaths of dam project employees, the curse of Oyashiro-sama. Hinamizawa Teiryuujo was the prototype of what would later become Higurashi When They Cry, initially proposed as a stage play written by Ryukishi07, but it was rejected by the theater company and later repurposed for the game.
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are horror, mystery and thriller. 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 Hou: Hinamizawa Teiryuujo is the 56th of 107 entries we hold in the Higurashi When They Cry series. The next entry was Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou: Kamikashimashi-hen in 2014.
See all 107 Higurashi When They Cry games in release order →
What it launched against
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou: Hinamizawa Teiryuujo launched on 14 August 2014, within three weeks of The Last of Us Remastered, Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux and Metro Redux.
Released around the same time: The Last of Us Remastered, Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux, Metro Redux.
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