Higurashi is one of the best visual novels of all time in my opinion. This is the retranslated version from Mangagamer with updated sprites and original audio (unvoiced, but the later chapters have some great tracks by dai and others), although you can choose to play with Ryukishi's original ham hands if you really want to, or in Japanese. There are 8 parts (4 setting up the mystery and posing questions, and 4 setting up the conclusion and showing you the truth), not all of them are retranslated yet, so keep an eye out for them in the future. as well as a number of less-than-canon chapters written for other platforms that we might see translated in the future. There's also an anime (but it's by Studio DEEN) that's still pretty decent. I really recommend going through this game blind if you don't know much about it. At the end of each chapter you get sort of a guided discussion towards whether you think the culprit is humans or magic, which was intended for the original readers when it was still being written, but it is still an interesting exercise if you haven't been spoiled yet. If you are interested in anime, mystery, and horror, this really is one of the best VNs out there for that. A great game by all accounts.
