Ciconia When They Cry - Phase 1: For You, the Replaceable Ones
Fair · Narrative · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 18h 20.6h to 100%
- Value
- $2.22/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 568 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $31.94 or less.
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.
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About the game
This is the first chapter in newest entry When They Cry visual novel series produced by Ryuukishi07. It features HD graphics, more detailed animations, and newly created songs by many of the composers from Umineko, as well as several new additions.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1280 x 720, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 46 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Return of the Obra Dinn ($19.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Bendy and the Ink Machine ($19.99, scores 55).
More about Ciconia When They Cry - Phase 1: For You, the Replaceable Ones
This site sampled 331 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 14, 13:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
if you've read and enjoyed higurashi and umineko, ciconia is ABSOLUTELY worth reading right now even if phase 2 never releases. this is some of ryukishi's best work and you're doing yourself a disservice by opting to wait until its fully out. the questions it leaves are so engaging that you cant help but immerse yourself in taking a shot at making sense of it all, the story it weaves is so engrossing that i couldn't...
1 more review
Even with only one phase released out of the four that were planned (and even with it not being likely any other phase comes out soon), it's such a great visual novel and would still highly recommend reading it. I can't stop thinking about those Walls of Peace.
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Cite this score
Ciconia When They Cry - Phase 1: For You, the Replaceable Ones scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1162560/ciconia-when-they-cry-phase-1-for-you-the-replaceable-onesReviews 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.