En juin 1983, la chaleur précoce de l'été gagne Hinamizawa, paisible village rural japonais comptant moins de deux mille habitants. Les cigales stridulent le jour, les higurashi la nuit, sur fond de quatre années consécutives de morts et disparitions liées à la résistance contre un projet de barrage abandonné. Un meurtre de l'époque des travaux, étouffé dans l'œuf, se répète inlassablement, suscitant l'interrogation entre complot, hasard ou malédiction, tandis que des visages familiers s'effacent et que des inconnus surgissent.
Ce jeu d'aventure sur PC plonge les joueurs dans une tragédie inéluctable, où les vivants deviennent morts du jour au lendemain et où le présent dissimule les dépouilles. Aucune voie ne permet d'interrompre le cycle, ne laissant que l'élan de persévérer face au désespoir. Il séduit les amateurs de mystères narratifs qui explorent les limites humaines sans issue.
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.
