Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
BANGER · Narrative · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
PLAY IT.
A BANGER, and it costs nothing.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 6,907
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Narrative
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10.4h
- To 100%
- 13.1h 1.3x the story
- Achievements
- 14
Players and genre
- Online
- 60 now
- Recent reviews
- 95% 30 days
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
76% start to 20% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Its score 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 ($7.49, scores 69) and Sanitarium ($9.99, scores 79), are both worse buys on this math.
It is still busy. 60 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 2, 18:47 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks.
More about Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
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.
Buy now or wait
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Before touching the VN, I read the manga and was quite disturbed by the amount of fan service in it, especially since every single character from the main cast is a minor, below 15 if I remember correctly... And that's exactly why no words can express how GLAD I am that the Visual Novel has crude jokes that the characters say to each other AT MOST! No weird panty shots or showing off chests of teenage girls right in...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The best visual novel ever, I had goosebumps the whole time. But shame on you if you read this without the original sprites!!!
I just didn't really "get it". This game tries to be mysterious, and maybe this is just a "me" thing because I tend not to "play along at home" with mysteries because I realized eventually after going zero wins and a million losses in my record of solving them that I'm bad at it and never get it before the big reveal anyways, and so I note what happens and all but don't really try to connect the dots beyond that...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. 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-onikakushiReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.