Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.7 Minagoroshi
BANGER · Narrative · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $7.99.
- Length
- 14.2h 15.8h to 100%
- Value
- $0.56/hr
- Reviews
- 97% of 790 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128MB DirectX 9c Compatible (Pixel Shader 2.0+), 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 49 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 35 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 98 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Rusty Lake: Roots ($3.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Welcome to Kowloon ($6.99, scores 41).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $16.06.
More about Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.7 Minagoroshi
Of the 319 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
89% start to 69% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 24 when we last checked, on Sep 30, 15:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
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2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Higurashi Chapter 7. Minagoroshi, does something that I rarely see mystery storylines being able to do satisfactorily -- give answers to the last remaining bit of mysteries in a satisfying manner, where the revelations don't provide a disappointment in their deviation from expected shock, but actually give you a shock and emotionally sway you in an effective manner. The revelations instead of cheapening the tragedy...
I am not leaving a negative review on this because of the main story arc or the crashes (Why is this specific episode crashing? Probably because of all the trash crammed into this one.) I am leaving a negative review because of unnecessary fan service (in all fairness I think this was a stacked effect cause all episodes had some of this sprinkled in), stupid jokes and nonsense scenes at the worst of times. I signed...
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Cite this score
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.7 Minagoroshi scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1034940/higurashi-when-they-cry-hou-ch-7-minagoroshiReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.