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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi

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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi
Description
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 ye...
Genre:
Adventure - Visual Novel - Mystery
Tags:
Adventure, Indie, Story Rich, Atmospheric, 2D, show 10 more... Casual, Dark, Horror, Funny, Mystery, Visual Novel, Sexual Content, Emotional, Psychological Horror, Psychological
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Product details
2020, 07th Expansion, ...
System requirements
Windows 7, Pentium III 800 MHz, 512 MB RAM, 128MB DirectX 9c Compatible (Pixel Shader 2.0+), Version...
Time to beat
16.5 hMain
17.5 h Main + Sides
21 h Completionist
20 h All Styles

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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
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Description
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.

Gameplay

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.

© 07th Expansion / MangaGamer

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Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
16.5 hMain
17.5 h Main + Sides
21 h Completionist
20 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Game details
Genre:
Adventure - Visual Novel - Mystery
Tags:
Adventure, Indie, Story Rich, Atmospheric, 2D, show 10 more... Casual, Dark, Horror, Funny, Mystery, Visual Novel, Sexual Content, Emotional, Psychological Horror, Psychological
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04), Mac OS X (10.11+)
Release date:
{{'2020-05-14T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
Company:
07th Expansion / MangaGamer
Size:
553 MB
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Languages
English
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日本語
audio
text
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Posted on: January 12, 2023

ast486

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Games: 1522 Reviews: 89

The best and worst of the series.

If you enjoyed the previous chapters, this one is a great ending story. Sadly this is also the most annoying because the author decided to make you do a horrible puzzle just to get into that story! That's why I took the 5'th star off. Thankfully a nice person on steam posted a walkthrough for those of us incapable of completing puzzles like this. Spoilers below, but very relevant you, like me would never have been able to do it by yourself: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1243670/discussions/0/4594180031258217881/

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Posted on: April 28, 2025

raphtali

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Games: 7 Reviews: 1

Good game, bugged release

So the finale of Higurashi. It's good. However this release has a bug that causes the game to crash and close when an antimated screen transition starts. Other versions don't have this, the steam version got patched to fix this, but for some reason they didn't bother to put the fix on gog

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