About the Game
Narrative
In the recently abandoned village of NaniNani Mura, the last in a lineage of pure monks named Chado-san searches for answers about why he was sent away to Tokyo as a child, why the residents have all fled, and what happened to the beautiful child hood friend he remembers fondly. However a legendary Spirit haunts the village and is hunting your pure energy! Protect Chado-san's purity and find a way to escape Hachishaku's grasp!
Gameplay
Hachishaku is a stalker horror style game where you investigate the village, find answers, search for the 5 sacred jizo to return them to their shrines, and collect money to buy various costumes, accessories and hair styles for your 8 foot tall stalker. Read the journals and notes left by the villagers to discover the truth about the village's past. Find photographic evidence of Hachishaku forgotten by time!
Launch Content and Update Plans!
The game includes 10 costumes, 6 hair styles, and plenty of accessories and hats to save your coins for at launch, but more will be considered and added in the future! Soon after launch an update will also let you enjoy the Gravure Mode - a peaceful life with Hachishaku in her secret hideout.
Escape the village, Get spirited away, or confront your duty!
Screenshots
14 images
Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
On the site: Build 23945003
Up to date
Fixed an issue with optimization to improve stability and FPS
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- fixed an issue with clipping on several costumes
- fixed an issue where Hachishaku would teleport into the floor in the cemetery
- Added 10 additional costume options
- Added 4 additional accessories
- Fixed an issue where the "how to play" / controls screen could not be exited.
- The 'Backspace' key can now exit the "how to play" /controls screen.
- Increased the drop rate of Red keys in Chado's Nightmare. Every 4th Red Alien guarantees a drop.
Bug fixes
Changes
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- Fixed a bug where opening the map while in the pause menu could occur and lock the game.
- Yakitori can no longer be click-spammed on for multiple heals
- Items(should) no longer spawn high in the air.
Changes
- Sliding no longer drains stamina while Infinite Stamina is active.
- Red Aliens now spawn once for every 6 Gray Aliens.
- Red Aliens drop rate for red keys now slightly lowered to account for increase in Red Alien spawns
Chado's nightmare Restored and new fixes
⦁ Removed volumetric fog for performance and framerate improvement
⦁ Improved Spawn rate for Keys and healing items with basic enemies.
⦁ Made Red enemies always spawn an item on death. (red keys are now 65% of drops)
⦁ Red Enemies will sometimes spawn HP pickups now.
⦁ Added tip text when in the Escape Pad's range
⦁ Added new Objective prompt for clarity.
⦁ Fixed an issue where stamina would not refill when depleted
⦁ Increased stamina refill rate for this mode only.
⦁ fixed an issue where the current combo chain would not reset properly.
⦁ Added new stun animations to the Enemies.
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⦁ Removed volumetric fog for performance and framerate improvement
⦁ Improved Spawn rate for Keys and healing items with basic enemies.
⦁ Made Red enemies always spawn an item on death. (red keys are now 65% of drops)
⦁ Red Enemies will sometimes spawn HP pickups now.
⦁ Added tip text when in the Escape Pad's range
⦁ Added new Objective prompt for clarity.
⦁ Fixed an issue where stamina would not refill when depleted
⦁ Increased stamina refill rate for this mode only.
⦁ fixed an issue where the current combo chain would not reset properly.
⦁ Added new stun animations to the Enemies.
Chado's nightmare fixes
⦁ Removed volumetric fog for performance and framerate improvement
⦁ Improved Spawn rate for Keys and healing items with basic enemies.
⦁ Made Red enemies always spawn an item on death. (red keys are now 65% of drops)
⦁ Red Enemies will sometimes spawn HP pickups now.
⦁ Added tip text when in the Escape Pad's range
⦁ Added new Objective prompt for clarity.
⦁ Fixed an issue where stamina would not refill when depleted
⦁ Increased stamina refill rate for this mode only.
⦁ fixed an issue where the current combo chain would not reset properly.
⦁ Added new stun animations to the Enemies.
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⦁ Removed volumetric fog for performance and framerate improvement
⦁ Improved Spawn rate for Keys and healing items with basic enemies.
⦁ Made Red enemies always spawn an item on death. (red keys are now 65% of drops)
⦁ Red Enemies will sometimes spawn HP pickups now.
⦁ Added tip text when in the Escape Pad's range
⦁ Added new Objective prompt for clarity.
⦁ Fixed an issue where stamina would not refill when depleted
⦁ Increased stamina refill rate for this mode only.
⦁ fixed an issue where the current combo chain would not reset properly.
⦁ Added new stun animations to the Enemies.
- fixed an issue where the stone path in the graveyard was disappearing randomly.
- improved lighting and optimization
Additions
- Added 2 new costumes for Chado-san's nightmare
- Added new Christmas themed costume and hats.
- Added 1 new casual costume.
- Added Chado-san's nightmare mode!
- Navigate the maze of the Alien mothership and escape the clutches of the Enokin!
- Find the hidden costume throughout the rooms of the maze!
- PUNCH EVERY ALIEN.
- Gather dropped keys form defeated Alien Scum to make your escape with Hana-chan!
- Enjoy 2 new manga cutscenes!
Happy New Year to you all! I hope you enjoy the new mode and have a bright and wonderful 2026! I will pay attention for bug reports to fix, and will let you know when the final update is ready!
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- improved lighting and optimization
Additions
- Added 2 new costumes for Chado-san's nightmare
- Added new Christmas themed costume and hats.
- Added 1 new casual costume.
- Added Chado-san's nightmare mode!
- Navigate the maze of the Alien mothership and escape the clutches of the Enokin!
- Find the hidden costume throughout the rooms of the maze!
- PUNCH EVERY ALIEN.
- Gather dropped keys form defeated Alien Scum to make your escape with Hana-chan!
- Enjoy 2 new manga cutscenes!
Happy New Year to you all! I hope you enjoy the new mode and have a bright and wonderful 2026! I will pay attention for bug reports to fix, and will let you know when the final update is ready!
Happy Halloween everyone! I hope you can spend a little more time with Hana-Chan and Chado-san for this Steam Scream fest! I have added some new content and made some bug fixes while working on the final update before I move on to a new project. Here's the patch notes for today;
- Added 3 new costume meshes, with 2 color variants each!
- Added 4 new hats, 3 have alternate colors variants
- Added 2 new accessories with 2 color variants each
- improved the skin weighting on accessories to prevent stretching and deformation during animations, some clipping may occur still.
After this I will resume work on the new mode. I am not sure how much additional content it will include, but I plan to have it out before the holidays! I plan to include more bug fixes, the new game mode, and maybe a few more costumes and accessories. I apologize for missing my planned summer release. Over the last few months I have spent a lot of time learning many new things in unreal and have come to realize many mistakes I made along the way with Hachishaku's code. Many of those are now a big knot that is difficult to untangle, but when I start with a fresh project I am confident I can make lots of improvements and progress!
I hope you will look forward to the update and the next game! I will put up a steam page for it soon after the next update! Thank you for all your support, and most importantly, thank you for enjoying Hachishaku! I was glad I could bring more happiness to our world. Though, Maybe it was really Hachishaku-sama herself that did that!
Please enjoy the new costumes, and make sure not to eat too much candy!
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- Added 3 new costume meshes, with 2 color variants each!
- Added 4 new hats, 3 have alternate colors variants
- Added 2 new accessories with 2 color variants each
- improved the skin weighting on accessories to prevent stretching and deformation during animations, some clipping may occur still.
After this I will resume work on the new mode. I am not sure how much additional content it will include, but I plan to have it out before the holidays! I plan to include more bug fixes, the new game mode, and maybe a few more costumes and accessories. I apologize for missing my planned summer release. Over the last few months I have spent a lot of time learning many new things in unreal and have come to realize many mistakes I made along the way with Hachishaku's code. Many of those are now a big knot that is difficult to untangle, but when I start with a fresh project I am confident I can make lots of improvements and progress!
I hope you will look forward to the update and the next game! I will put up a steam page for it soon after the next update! Thank you for all your support, and most importantly, thank you for enjoying Hachishaku! I was glad I could bring more happiness to our world. Though, Maybe it was really Hachishaku-sama herself that did that!
Please enjoy the new costumes, and make sure not to eat too much candy!
Hello! Thank you for your patience while I took some time to rest and work on optimization and minor bug fixes. I am now planning and developing a larger update for Hachishaku which I plan to launch in October probably. I hope to add the 'Chado's Nightmare' mode with new costumes and lots of adjustments. Then I will begin work on the next game! I am taking some time to decide the waifu that will chase us due to Steam's new rules. I am concerned about using Hanako-san due to these rules even though I plan to make her an adult the height may cause issues. So I will change the plan and announce it soon on twitter/X, so make sure you are following me there!
- Fixed a bug where the jizo could be dropped in certain locations and no longer picked up
- Updated game to UE 5.6 for better performance
- Improved overall optimization and stability.
- fixed a bug on the goth outfit where her torso would sometimes disappear
- blocked the "Call" ability while in hiding spots
- added infinite stamina to gravure mode
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- Fixed a bug where the jizo could be dropped in certain locations and no longer picked up
- Updated game to UE 5.6 for better performance
- Improved overall optimization and stability.
- fixed a bug on the goth outfit where her torso would sometimes disappear
- blocked the "Call" ability while in hiding spots
- added infinite stamina to gravure mode
Bug Fixes:
I've started planning the next Larger update as well! On top of costumes I am already working on which I plan to release whenever they are done, this update will add even more costumes, features and a new more gameplay focused mode. I have an idea from the three I previously suggested that I think will be lots of fun. I cant give a release date or anything yet but I will post updates on X/twitter as I work! Thank you for all your support, I hope you continue to enjoy Hachishaku!
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- Fixed an issue where You could spawn Hachishaku at the playground before entering Grandpa's house
- Fixed an issue where jizo pickup could be blocked by some interactions
- fixed an issue where objective progress in inventory screen wouldn't clear if starting a new game
- Localization fixes
I've started planning the next Larger update as well! On top of costumes I am already working on which I plan to release whenever they are done, this update will add even more costumes, features and a new more gameplay focused mode. I have an idea from the three I previously suggested that I think will be lots of fun. I cant give a release date or anything yet but I will post updates on X/twitter as I work! Thank you for all your support, I hope you continue to enjoy Hachishaku!
I apologize for the issue with the previous patch. I can confirm it must have been an issue with the upload to the steam server. I have reuploaded the build and checked it's stability through steam directly this time and it should be properly functioning. I sincerely apologize for disappointing everyone and will make sure to more thoroughly test the next patches.
I hope you can all enjoy Hachishaku more thoroughly now . Here are the patch notes for v2.1
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue where Hachishaku would get stuck if trying to move somewhere she can't access, you can now use 'call' to reset her AI.
- Fixed an issue with the gravure chance achievement.
Adjustments:
- Calling Hachishaku now interrupts and updates her current target location. As stated above this can also reset her when she is stuck and not moving. NOTE - This has caused a new bug where sometimes she will become stuck on the gravure chance spot's hitbox after viewing the scene. I am investigating this but wanted to fix the bigger problem as soon as I could.
- With the exception of the gravure expert achievement, I've further checked the achievement unlocks and confirmed myself on a fresh steam account that they are all working when the final item is collected (photos/notes/gravure chance scenes). To clarify, there are 12 photographs, 22 notes, and 5 gravure chance spots. The code works exactly like the jizo collection, so they must be completed in a single playthrough. Restarting the game or game over resets the count as well. I don't like blaming player error though, so I accept that after this update if the achievement is still not unlocking for players the issue must be tied to save file issues, steam back-end, or something unknown. I have rebuilt the code from scratch again so it should 100% be working.
Other:
- Improved AI behaviors
- made additional optimization fixes
Upcoming Quick Additions and fixes
- Visual indicator for the gravure chance spots and their active trigger bounds.
- further bug fixes and optimization
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I hope you can all enjoy Hachishaku more thoroughly now . Here are the patch notes for v2.1
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue where Hachishaku would get stuck if trying to move somewhere she can't access, you can now use 'call' to reset her AI.
- Fixed an issue with the gravure chance achievement.
Adjustments:
- Calling Hachishaku now interrupts and updates her current target location. As stated above this can also reset her when she is stuck and not moving. NOTE - This has caused a new bug where sometimes she will become stuck on the gravure chance spot's hitbox after viewing the scene. I am investigating this but wanted to fix the bigger problem as soon as I could.
- With the exception of the gravure expert achievement, I've further checked the achievement unlocks and confirmed myself on a fresh steam account that they are all working when the final item is collected (photos/notes/gravure chance scenes). To clarify, there are 12 photographs, 22 notes, and 5 gravure chance spots. The code works exactly like the jizo collection, so they must be completed in a single playthrough. Restarting the game or game over resets the count as well. I don't like blaming player error though, so I accept that after this update if the achievement is still not unlocking for players the issue must be tied to save file issues, steam back-end, or something unknown. I have rebuilt the code from scratch again so it should 100% be working.
Other:
- Improved AI behaviors
- made additional optimization fixes
Upcoming Quick Additions and fixes
- Visual indicator for the gravure chance spots and their active trigger bounds.
- further bug fixes and optimization
Sorry about that, working on a fix right now which should address the issue.
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Current Release
Build 23945003
Uploaded Oct 10, 2026
System Requirements
OS
Windows 10
CPU
intel I7
RAM
16 GB RAM
GPU
RTX 2070 or better
How to Install
1
Download all files
2
Extract the .ZIP file to a folder (use WinRAR or 7-Zip)
3
Run Hachishaku.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
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Archive password
Needed when extracting (WinRAR / 7-Zip) — not a site login.
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