Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi
BANGER · Narrative · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $7.99.
- Length
- 17.1h 21.4h to 100%
- Value
- $0.47/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 895 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
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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
Across all 44 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 35 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 96 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, Oxenfree ($9.99, scores 72) and Fran Bow ($14.99, scores 83), are both worse buys on this math.
$16.47 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi
Of the 343 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
86% start to 52% 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
- 10 when we last checked, on Oct 7, 04:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
after a combined total of 5 months and 154 hours my final verdict for higurashi is: GEM!!!! GG!!!!
2 more reviews
higurashi has been a story that i have held close to my heart for a long time now. like many others, i was first introduced via the anime at an age that was far too young. the first arc scared me so bad that i didn't pick it back up for months. but once i worked up the courage to give it another chance, i fell in love. from there i read the visual novel for the first time. i'll never forget reading it on my ipod...
I never posted a review on this game despite having played it long ago already, instead I farmed the hours on it to ascend more and more. Ryukishi07 is an absolute genius I love Higurashi, and you need to play it too for your life to become better. If you watch the anime before playing this game then you should sacrifice yourself, so make sure to play the game first. meep meep nipaaah nipaaah meep nipaahh meep meep...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.8 Matsuribayashi scores 90/100 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/1243670/higurashi-when-they-cry-hou-ch-8-matsuribayashiReviews 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.