Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Jan Remaster Brings Its Cheating Mahjong to Tokyo Game Show
City Connection is betting that a 2009 arcade mahjong tie-in, not a mainline Higurashi visual novel, is worth an HD remaster in the current market, and the demo gives that bet a concrete answer via hands-on play at Tokyo Game Show.
Reporting from 1 source: Game Spark.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Jan REMASTER is a 2027 HD remaster of the 2009 arcade and PSP mahjong game, coming to PC (Steam), PS5, and Nintendo Switch. City Connection showed a playable demo at Tokyo Game Show 2026, which ran September 17 to 21 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture. Players take Keiichi into two-player mahjong matches and can trigger three cheating techniques.
Tickets to the demo were not the only thing the booth handed out. Tucked behind the playable build were reward visuals, HD-remastered from the 2009 arcade and PSP releases, plus the original scenario supervised by Ryukishi07 and its animation of more than 7,000 drawings, both carried over intact.
The demo we played ran in Oyashiro Mode, one of three modes in the game. Matches are two-player mahjong, and winning advances the story. Cheating techniques are earned after matches by drawing cards, then spent in later games.
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