Cicadas

A summer of cicadas. Three girls with stories to tell. Whose heart will you reach?

Cicadas is a school romance visual novel about memory, companionship, and the freedom to choose your own future. Play as Dongfang Chen, get to know three very different girls, and follow their individual routes through conversations and branching choices.

A missing past. A life worth holding on to.

Six years ago, an earthquake took a boy's family and most of his memories. Adopted into a new home, he began again under a new name: Dongfang Chen.

Classroom chatter, after-school jokes, and music drifting down the hall have made ordinary life feel familiar again. But as the people around him begin to open up, forgotten memories return with the sound of summer cicadas.

Xia Kong | Always beside you. Still waiting for an answer.

Your spirited neighbor, classmate, and a key player on the basketball team.
Quick to act and never short of a comeback, Xia Kong brings energy to even the most ordinary day. Walking to school, trading jokes, playing basketball: being with her feels like second nature.

Behind that easygoing smile are feelings she cannot quite put into words. When familiar days begin to overlap with hazy memories, how will you answer her quiet hopes?

Shen Ying | A gentle smile. A sky full of unspoken thoughts.

Your kind, high-achieving deskmate, who loves the stars and summer nights.
She is always willing to help, and her smile puts others at ease. Yet even when she is sitting right beside you, a little distance seems to remain.

From a small kindness in the classroom to a conversation beneath the stars, discover the person beyond that smile. Will she find someone who can listen to the things she has kept to herself?

Ouyang Yu | Follow the piano toward a freedom of her own.

A reserved pianist who longs to play on her own terms.
With excellent grades and a privileged background, Ouyang Yu seems to have everything. She rarely explains herself or seeks out company; at the piano, her feelings become easier to hear.

When the music she loves meets the weight of other people's expectations, whose melody will she choose? Get closer and hear the wishes she has never spoken aloud.

The friends who make an ordinary day matter

Dongfang Chen plays guitar and treasures his peaceful everyday life. His caring younger brother Dongfang Xin, his mischievous friend Yi Zhenfeng, and the quiet, kindhearted Lin Yuxiao also share in the laughter and small moments of this summer.

Read at your own pace

• Read conversations and make branching choices across three heroine routes.
  
• Experience eight chapters and six endings, with different meetings, partings, and possibilities.
  
• See everyday school life and pivotal moments through character artwork and story CGs.
  
• Use saves, dialogue history, auto mode, and skip controls to set your reading pace.
  
• Revisit unlocked scenes, CGs, and music in the collection room.

Some memories have faded. Some feelings are still waiting for an answer. Let your choices carry this summer forward.