MangaGamer have announced the release date for Higurashi When They Cry Hou – Ch.8 Matsuribayashi.

According to the When they Cry Fandom wiki, the game acts as the final part of the Higurashi When They Cry Hou series, anwsering some of the biggest mysteries.

While not explicitally mentioned on the Steam page, the MangaGamer store page states game offers both the original 2006 artwork, and the updated art from later entries.

You can find the full rundown (via Steam) below.

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.

Higurashi When They Cry Hou – Ch.8 Matsuribayashi launches May 14th on Windows PC, Linux, and Mac (all via Manga Gamer, May 15th on Steam).

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