Higurashi When They Cry series
Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.1 Onikakushi
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user…
Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.1 Onikakushi is an adventure developed by 07th Expansion, released 15 May 2015 on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.1 Onikakushi is
Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.1 Onikakushi is an adventure game developed by 07th Expansion and released in 2015. It was published by MangaGamer. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on BGI/Ethornell.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The 58th year of Shouwa, early summer It’s June, and the summer heat has arrived earlier than it does most years. By day there are crickets, and by night there are cicadas. We’re in Hinamizawa, a small village in the countryside. There are fewer than two thousand people here. But every year, there is an event. This event is a mysterious death. (The series has run from 1979 to 1983) 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? Someone who was supposed to be there…
How it plays
It is played from a auditory perspective. Its themes are horror and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Higurashi When They Cry series
Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.1 Onikakushi is the 79th of 107 entries we hold in the Higurashi When They Cry series. The next entry was Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Chuu in 2015.
See all 107 Higurashi When They Cry games in release order →
What it launched against
Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.1 Onikakushi launched on 15 May 2015, within three weeks of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Kerbal Space Program, Splatoon and Wolfenstein: The Old Blood. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Kerbal Space Program, Splatoon, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood.
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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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