Higurashi When They Cry series
Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.8 Matsuribayashi
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.8 Matsuribayashi is an adventure developed by 07th Expansion, released 14 May 2020 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.8 Matsuribayashi is
Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.8 Matsuribayashi is an adventure game developed by 07th Expansion and released in 2020. 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.8 Matsuribayashi is the 94th of 107 entries we hold in the Higurashi When They Cry series. The next entry was Zoku Sono Higurashi vs Touhou Universe 2 in 2020.
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What it launched against
Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.8 Matsuribayashi launched on 14 May 2020, within three weeks of Valorant, Deep Rock Galactic, Streets of Rage 4 and Tetris Effect: Connected.
Released around the same time: Valorant, Deep Rock Galactic, Streets of Rage 4, Tetris Effect: Connected.
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