Higurashi: When They Cry
Higurashi: When They Cry is a series of Adventure and Visual Novel video games developed and published by 07th Expansion for Multiple Platforms. The first title in the series was released in 2002, and the series contains up to eight installments. It mainly deals with a murder mystery, and the series unfolds the story as a sound novel, similar to Visual Novel in that the gameplay needs a relatively small player interaction as most of the game is played reading text dialogues. There are up to seven main characters available, and each appears in every scenario. Keiichi Maebara is the main protagonist, who is a young boy and recently shifted to Hinamzawa with his family and started to adapt to life in the country. The player has a natural charisma which enables him to make new buddies. As the game advances, other parts of the story will be revealed. With immersive gameplay, superb mechanics, and cool graphics, Higurashi: When They Cry is the best game to play.
#1 Surviving High School
Surviving High School is a 2005’s Top trending Episodic Interactive Fiction and Visual Novel video game distributed worldwide by EA Mobile. The game offers new episodes every week and lets the players enjoy a gameplay similar to its Sister game Cause of Death (Closed in 2014). Surviving High School offers characters from another Sister Game, High School Story by Pixelberry Studios. Surviving High School offers a Choice-based gameplay and allows the players to choose their own Adventures and Interactive Fiction. The game is set in a School named as Centerscore High where it features very typical and recognizable Student characters. The players are allowed to control several unique student characters, and they are given the option to choose two or three decisions that may or may not affect the outcome of the each original story. Surviving High School offers an episodic gameplay, and the episodes are grouped into Volume Sets. Each Volume Set contains eight mini-episodes. According to the storyline, the game allows the players to control the character of Autumn Brooks, a Student of Centerscore High. Autumn gets bullied, faces all the bullies with the choices she can make and finally gets transferred to High School Story (Sister game), where she accompanies other characters such as Owen, Wes, and Kami. With an entirely unique concept, Bullying and Anti-bullying themes, loads of cool characters, beautifully created visuals and an impressively addictive gameplay, Surviving High School is a fun Interactive Fiction and Visual Novel video game to play and enjoy.