htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary (2014) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary

In the depths of a labyrinthine ruin, a young girl named Mion rises from a deep sleep. Lost, alone, and with no memory of how she got here or where her parents are, she is greeted by two fireflies—one composed…

62 19 June 2014

What htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary is

htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary is an adventure game developed by Nippon Ichi Software and released in 2014. It is available on PlayStation Vita and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

The story begins on December 31, 9999, when a young amnesiac girl by the name of Mion wakes at the bottom of a dark ruins within a desolate world. Following a desire to let Mion escape the rubble and see the outside world, the firefly Hotaru leads her on a journey upwards through the ruins. On her journey outwards, she finds unmanned machines, distorted vegetation, and bodies of dead children.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary holds a critic score of 62 out of 100. That places it above 21% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 7 points below the year average.

What it launched against

htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary launched on 19 June 2014, within three weeks of Mario Kart 8, Shovel Knight, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove and Divinity: Original Sin. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Mario Kart 8, Shovel Knight, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, Divinity: Original Sin.

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