Ouka Exorcists: Night Parade

A Japanese-folklore survivors-like with a story to tell

On the night of the spring festival, the moon turns red and the Hyakki Yagyō — the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons — floods into Ouka Town. Your weapons fire on their own; you weave through the horde, dash through gaps and unleash full-screen ultimates. Between waves, pick upgrades and shop at the shrine stall. A run is 20 waves, about 20 minutes, and no two builds play the same.

Six exorcists, six ways to play

• Sakura — a trainee shrine maiden whose sacred barrier blocks hits.
  
• Rin — a wandering swordswoman whose iai strikes always crit.
  
• Tama — a lucky fox spirit who earns more and rerolls for free.
  
• Yoru — a quiet ninja built around speed and dashing.
  
• Ibaraki — an oni girl with an iron club who hits harder the more she is hurt.
  
• Suzu — Yoru's cat, secretly a nekomata, with one extra life per run.

Each has her own passive, starting weapon and ultimate. Raise bonds to Lv10 for alternate colors, an awakened passive and a festival CG.

Build your school

• 13 Japanese weapons — katana, naginata, kusarigama, ofuda talismans, foxfire, kagura bells, hamaya arrows, blowguns and more — that merge up to tier IV.
  
• Three schools (melee, ranged, spirit arts) with set bonuses at 2, 4 and 6 weapons.
  
• 60 items: tri-color dango, beckoning cat, hannya mask, Yata mirror, Raijin's drum, tamatebako… many of them change how you play.

Two stages, four bosses

Fight through Ouka Shrine and the Misty Bamboo Grove. Each stage has a mid-boss on wave 10 — the spider woman Jorogumo and the thunder beast Nue, each with her own bullet patterns — and a final boss: Tamamo-no-Mae, the Nine-Tailed Fox, and the Great Tengu. Elites with affixes, wave events like the lucky-cat chase and the Night Parade march, three difficulties, five Seal levels on top of the hardest one, and an endless mode.

Rebuild the shrine

Bring sakura petals home from every run and restore Ouka Shrine building by building. Unlock alternate starting weapons, blessings, tea-time talks, a yokai bestiary, a goshuin stamp book and 30 ema challenges — and watch the withered thousand-year sakura slowly come back into bloom.

A visual-novel story

A fully illustrated prologue, three episodes for each of the four heroines, an interlude ending, and join episodes for Ibaraki and Suzu — with event CGs, character portraits and expressions.

Original Japanese-style soundtrack

Koto, shamisen, shakuhachi and taiko meet modern arrangements.