Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Rei
Worth it · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $5.99, a BANGER if it drops to $4.92.
- Length
- 5.1h 6.8h to 100%
- Value
- $1.17/hr
- Reviews
- 98% of 303 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.92 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.
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+), 850 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 29 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 10 percent, about 7 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $4.92. No recorded sale has reached it yet.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 96 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Impostor Factory ($9.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Lil' Guardsman ($19.99, scores 69).
More about Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Rei
None of the 268 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2022 to August 2026.
The drop-off
67% start to 42% 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
- 3 when we last checked, on Sep 26, 15:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
saikoroshi - great alternative ending, very rewarding and we see bernkastel awakening hirukowashi - pretty fun, getting to see characters talk non sense and run around and chasing each other over a weird love scenario. some funny scenes batsukoishi - insane fan service around the punishment games but to be honest pretty entertaining (keiichi and satoshi scene) *worth buying*
2 more reviews
when ryukishi has the AUDACITY to drop the hardest, most memorable, most tragic chapter in all fiction with saikoroshi in the same game
Do NOT leave rei out. Saikoroshi is more than just an epilogue; the series just isn't complete without it. You'll know what I mean if you read it.
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 - Rei scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1941110/higurashi-when-they-cry-hou-reiReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.