Higurashi When They Cry series
Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.5 Meakashi
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.5 Meakashi is an adventure developed by 07th Expansion, released 28 April 2017 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.5 Meakashi is
Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.5 Meakashi is an adventure game developed by 07th Expansion and released in 2017. It was published by MangaGamer. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
June, 1983. The summer heat has arrived earlier than it does most years. By day there are cicadas, and by night, the higurashi. Hinamizawa, a small village in the Japanese countryside. While there are fewer than two thousand people there, every year, 'something' happens. For the past 4 years, someone has died, and someone else has gone missing. This series of deaths and disappearances is connected to the local resistance against a now-abandoned dam construction project. A murder during the construction, covered up by the local authorities, is being re-enacted year after year. Is it a conspiracy? A coincidence? Or perhaps a curse? Someone who was supposed to be there... isn't. Someone who…
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.5 Meakashi is the 85th of 107 entries we hold in the Higurashi When They Cry series. It arrived 7 months after Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.4 Himatsubushi. The next entry was Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.6 Tsumihoroboshi in 2018.
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What it launched against
Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.5 Meakashi launched on 28 April 2017, within three weeks of Prey, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and What Remains of Edith Finch.
Released around the same time: Prey, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, What Remains of Edith Finch.
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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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