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Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Origin
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Origin is a DLC that adds an origin reading mode, a new game opening, sprite switching, and Mehagashi-hen from Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou+.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Origin is an adventure developed by 07th Expansion, released 22 June 2023 on Nintendo Switch.
What Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Origin is
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Origin is an adventure game developed by 07th Expansion and released in 2023. It was published by ENTERGRAM. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Origin is a DLC that adds an origin reading mode, a new game opening, sprite switching, and Mehagashi-hen from Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou+.
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are horror. 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 Origin is the 100th of 107 entries we hold in the Higurashi When They Cry series. It arrived a year after Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Rei. The next entry was Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou + Origin in 2023.
See all 107 Higurashi When They Cry games in release order →
What it launched against
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Origin launched on 22 June 2023, within three weeks of Diablo IV, Final Fantasy XVI, Dave the Diver and Street Fighter 6. It arrived 6 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Diablo IV, Final Fantasy XVI, Dave the Diver, Street Fighter 6.
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