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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 takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story. Nevertheless, this is a game, not a novel. As the player, you will be able to unravel the mystery surrounding the events in the game as the scenarios unfold.

Released: 28 April 2017
Developer: 07th Expansion
Publisher: MangaGamer
Engine: Unity
Perspective: Auditory · Text
Steam recommendations: 1,037
Platforms: Linux · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Mac
Genres: Adventure · Indie · Visual Novel
Also known as: Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou: Chapter 5 - Meakashi-hen

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Player rating: 4
Ratings counted: 98%
Steam reviews: 16
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Crossplay System requirements 512 MB RAM Download size 0.5 GB Steam Deck Playable

Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.5 Meakashi

The story

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 wasn't supposed to be there... is. Someone who was alive last night is now dead, and someone who is here right now isn't alive. There is no way to avert this tragedy. There is no choice but to give up trying. But even so... please don't give up.

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