✓ If you enjoyed Daemonologie, expect visual novel storytelling, adventure storytelling and horror tension
≠ Stands apart with cozy, relaxing feel, linear, story-driven structure and setting anime, while skipping puzzle design
The 58th year of Shouwa, early summer.
It’s June, and the summer heat has arrived earlier than it does most years.
By day there are crickets, and by night there are cicadas.
We’re in Hinamizawa, a small village in the countryside.
There are fewer than two thousand people here.
Where it drifts furthest from Daemonologie: setting and visuals.
It predates Daemonologie by 8 years, with what that implies technically.