Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
BANGER · Narrative · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
PLAY IT.
A BANGER, and it costs nothing.
- Length
- 10.4h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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.
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Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, INDIKA ($24.99, scores 50) and Sanitarium ($9.99, scores 59), are both worse buys on this math.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 184 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 10.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
It is still busy. 27 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.
The drop-off
76% start to 20% 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
27 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
You might think you're reading a murder mystery, but you're actually reading a novel that manages to be creepy, sad and happy at the same time. This rollercoaster of emotions will remain a part of you for years to come, well worth the time and the effort that you put into it There's a mystery of course, can you solve it? Separate from the wider mystery is also the nebula of mysteries surrounding individual...
The game start's off really slow....But when the horror starts ow boy it's so good. This ♥♥♥♥ made me paranoid af and it honestly really scary 10/10 pooped my self
I Read this with the 07th Mod, and this review will be for the whole series. As of the time of making this review, I feel like the best experience will be from using the 07th mod due to the (amazing) voice acting and the music changing. I used this series to help me get used to longer visual novels and I personally felt like it was a great start to the medium as a whole. I have only read shorter visual novels prior...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/310360/higurashi-when-they-cry-hou-ch-1-onikakushiThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 21.
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