The relentless cycle of tragedy surrounding Hinamizawa and the club members has finally ended. Peace has returned to the village as it welcomes June 1983. Yet there are other fragments, other memories, other worlds that still lie unexplored. Do you, the challenger who has seen and conquered the tragic past of Hinamizawa, have the heart and fortitude to peer into these tales that previously lay undisturbed? Tread lightly, and remember to savor your time with the club members of Hinamizawa.

From Novect, the creators of the highly acclaimed The House in Fata Morgana, comes Seventh Lair, a tongue-in-cheek but emotional look at the online interactions between an indie game developer and fans!

The story follows the dejected Dark†Knight, a 27-year-old indie game developer living at the bottom of the social hierarchy. With his career hanging on by a thread and the regulars on his forums criticizing, trolling, and clamoring for his next release, he declares that his next game will premiere on April Fool's. On the ill-fated day, both creator and fans are suddenly sucked into a fantasy world based on his game and forced to figure out how to clear his buggy, unfinished, monstrosity. As frustrations rise and tempers flare, the players' raw emotions and experiences begin to leak out as they are denied the protections of their online handles. What truths lie behind the masks of their personas? Can they survive the game and each other? Or will they manage to find their way back to reality together?

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This is it. The final conclusion. It's do or die for Rika, Keiichi, and the others. This is their final chance to break free of the relentless cycle around them. Have you learned enough from the chapters thus far? Do you have all the fragments needed to reach the ideal Hinamizawa? It's time for the curtain to rise on this chilling finale to Higurashi When They Cry!

Additionally, in order to help people stay at home and fight the coronavirus pandemic, we've decided to make the first chapter, Onikakushi, free-to-own until an effective vaccine or treatment is discovered! For this same reason, we're also offering a huge 75% discount from now until July 14th on the remaining Question Arcs! You can get them on discount here:

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/14966/Hinamizawa_Virus_Bundle/

Let's all do our part and work together to overcome this threat, nipah~☆

"In this next game, I won't give you the privilege of being a player!" challenges creator Ryukishi 07, with regards to his newest release, Ciconia When They Cry!

In Ciconia When They Cry, World War 3 has come and gone, with nuclear winter only narrowly avoided by new military technology, the Gauntlet, which allows those wielding one to fly like fighter jets, fight like battleships, and repel attacks like tanks without any additional equipment. The Gauntlets require particular talent and special training administered from a young age in order to control, and the young boys and girls capable of mastering of them become known as Gauntlet Knights. The main characters of Ciconia When They will be a group of these young Gauntlet Knights who, after the peaceful competition in the International Battle Standard Festival, become fast friends vowing to prevent another world war together. However, world events are leading directly to World War 4 like a cascading row of dominos, and these "main characters" are nothing but pawns in the global games played by those with a right to sit at the table.

Will these youth be forced to murder each other? Can the tragedy of war be prevented by mere pawns? Who are the real players in these games, and will you, the fans of When They Cry, fight for your seat at this deadly game?

This newest addition to the When They Cry franchise from Ryukishi07 and 07th Expansion is now available on Steam!

The highly-acclaimed, psychedelic BL murder-mystery from indie developer ADELTA is now available on Steam!

A wonderful delight for bibliophiles and fans of BL, this intricate story of death and the occult is set in the Taisho era of Japan when the push for modernization threatens the very identity of the nation.

Through a stroke of luck, Tamamori begins to live and work at Umebachidou, a used book store. There, he enjoys whiling away his time as a roninsei—a student preparing for entrance exams—and taking advantage of friends who came to Tokyo with him. But...

One right after the other, mysterious deaths befall those friends, and Tamamori, realizing he's been repeating the same rainy three days over and over again, finds himself racing throughout Jinbouchou to save them.

In this pop-occult mystery that surrounds the deaths of his friends...

What is real, and what is a hallucination?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1034940/Higurashi_When_They_Cry_Hou__Ch7_Minagoroshi/

At long last, you can enjoy the sixth chapter of this exciting Visual Novel that spawned the highly-acclaimed Higurashi anime and manga series on Steam for the very first time! With updated sprites and other visuals, fans won't want to miss this new release!

In this chapter, Minagoroshi, Keiichi manages to make the choice that would avert the tragedies of Watanagashi and Meakashi. With this revelation that Keiichi and the others are beginning to learn from the events of prior chapters, Rika finally gains hope that there might be a way to end this relentless cycle. Yet those hopes are soon stifled with the arrival of Houjou Teppei, Satoko's abusive uncle. Can the club members avert the tragedy of Tatarigoroshi this time around? Will a different chain of events finally reveal the mastermind behind the tragedies of Hinamizawa? And also... who is the mysterious figure Rika seems to be talking to this time around?

The Answer Arcs continue, and revelations await. So keep your eyes open and don't miss out!

Don't forget to check out our 07th Expansion page either:

http://www.mangagamer.org/07thExpansion/

Help spread the word on twitter with #Higurashi and introduce new fans to this remastered version of such a great series from 07th Expansion!

We're celebrating Halloween early today with our Steam release of the adult murder-mystery, Kara no Shojo!

Set in 1950s post-war Japan, you take on the role of private eye Tokisaka to aid the police in uncovering and catching a serial murderer that is targeting young women and leaving their remains styled after the sinners in Dante's Inferno.

Examine the crime scenes yourself for clues, try to track down and interrogate witnesses for leads, and do you best to piece together the mystery before this killer targets someone close to you!

Can you catch the killer in time?! Find out today!

If you have difficulty finding the store page, remember to update your Steam settings to allow the display of adult products.

- Various typo fixed
- Japanese text display fixed

- Save file thumbnail images are now visible on the Save/Load screen
- Increased text shadow for better readability, especially for colored text
- Fixed a rare issue on Windows where some sprites would fail to display
- Linux support added
- Various typo and bug fixes