The Game Census
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi cover art

Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi

07th Expansion · MangaGamer · 2020-05-14

SteamGOG

Adventure

Franchise: Higurashi When They Cry · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text, Auditory

Releases: May 14, 2020 (Linux), May 14, 2020 (Mac), May 14, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.

95%
positive of 888 reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$7.99
steam price (US)

June, 1983. The summer heat has arrived earlier than it does most years. By day there are cicadas, and by night, the higurashi. Hinamizawa, a small village in the Japanese countryside. While there are fewer than two thousand people there, every year, 'something' happens. For the past 4 years, someone has died, and someone else has gone missing. This series of deaths and disappearances is connected to the local resistance against a now-abandoned dam construction project. A murder during the construction, covered up by the local authorities, is being re-enacted year after year. Is it a conspi(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 184 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~23/week).
  • · Review velocity up 67% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 23% of 16,975 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 18k–40k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 888 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$5.19-35%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.99 at GOG (2021-06-09)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 23 of 41 observed days · $1.20 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
464620202026Week of 2020-05-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$7.99$3.992020-05-152026-09-162020-05-15 — best price $7.192020-06-25 — best price $7.192020-11-14 — best price $7.992021-01-05 — best price $7.992021-04-01 — best price $5.192021-05-06 — best price $7.992021-08-16 — best price $7.992021-12-01 — best price $7.992022-02-21 — best price $7.992022-06-23 — best price $5.192022-08-01 — best price $7.992022-10-27 — best price $5.192022-12-01 — best price $7.992023-01-31 — best price $7.992023-04-04 — best price $7.992023-07-13 — best price $7.992023-10-19 — best price $5.192023-12-13 — best price $5.192024-02-14 — best price $5.192024-05-28 — best price $5.192024-07-16 — best price $5.192024-09-25 — best price $5.192024-11-01 — best price $7.992024-12-12 — best price $5.192025-03-10 — best price $7.992025-06-18 — best price $5.192025-09-19 — best price $7.992025-10-20 — best price $5.192025-11-25 — best price $5.192026-02-13 — best price $5.192026-05-02 — best price $7.992026-06-16 — best price $7.992026-08-25 — best price $5.192026-09-16 — best price $5.19
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

14
achievements tracked
85.6%
earned "The House of Love and Mercy"
75.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,16175%14

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DAnimeIndieHorrorMysteryAdventureStory RichSingleplayerVisual NovelGreat Soundtrack

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Players also track

Sound of Drop - fall into poison -Return to Shironagasu IslandNarin: The Orange RoomYour Turn To Die -Death Game By Majority-Schrödinger's Call

Similarity via IGDB.

Official site ↗