Umineko When They Cry - Question Arcs
BANGER · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $24.99.
- Length
- 63h
- Value
- $0.40/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1280 x 960, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Umineko When They Cry is the 2nd series of Sound Novel released by 07th Expansion. The steam version features renewed character sprites which is swappable from the classic art.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $9.99, set in April 2020. It has been discounted 63 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games closest to it, Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut ($24.99, scores 15) and Sanitarium ($9.99, scores 79) both come in lower.
$76.32 is where it would stop being a BANGER. It is priced at $24.99.
Steam's global achievement data puts 29 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 415 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 150 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
65% start to 29% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
68 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 02:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The question arc are an undisputed masterpiece. There can be no doubt about that so you might as well say it in red.
I read this on a platform other than steam yet proceeded to buy it on steam anyway afterwards. Masterpiece.
One of the greatest stories I have ever experienced. I still think about it almost daily a year after finishing it. The pacing could have been better, but stick with its 100+ hours long runtime and you will find some of the best characters, narrative, themes, and message in any visual novel. The soundtrack is also brilliant. Please try it even if your not a fan of visual novels. Be sure to install mods that improve...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Umineko When They Cry - Question Arcs scores 94/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/406550/umineko-when-they-cry-question-arcsReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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