Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Matsuri

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Matsuri (ひぐらしのなく頃に祭) is a PlayStation 2 port of the original visual novels. The game features new sprites, backgrounds, CGs, music, and full voice acting. The port also features an ADV-style presentation, showing one line of text at a time in a small box in the lower section of the screen, as opposed to the original games' NVL-style, where the text box took up the entire game window and displayed multiple lines. While Matsuri carries seven of the eight original arcs ( was excluded), three new arcs are included—the Question Arc, the bad-end Answer Arc , and , which provides an alternate ending to the one offered by Matsuribayashi-hen.

The game's opening movie is set to the song Nageki no Mori by Ayane. The ending song is Escape by Kanako Itō. The ending arc, Miotsukushi-hen, has its own opening set to Complex Image by Ayane. The ending theme for Miotsukushi-hen is Friend by Itō Kanako.

An append to Matsuri, called Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Matsuri: Kakera Asobi (ひぐらしのなく頃に祭カケラ遊び), was released after the success of the first game. The append version includes a new texbox, new menus and a better scenario chart, as well as Matsuribayashi-hen.

A Pachi-Slot Simulator called Pachi-Slot Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Matsuri (パチスロ ひぐらしのなく頃に) was released on April 22, 2010 for the PS2. It has the same story-line of Matsuri, but with the Pachi-Slot's (Slot Machine) game style, more CG's and has animated scenes.