Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.2 Watanagashi
BANGER · Narrative · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $7.99.
- Length
- 13h
- Value
- $0.61/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, OpenGL Compatible Card, 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.
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
December 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $1.59. It has been discounted 67 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, God's Basement ($14.99, scores 28) and Mouthwashing ($12.99, scores 71), are both worse buys on this math.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $16.55. It costs $7.99.
Of the 342 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
64% start to 44% 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
30 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 13:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
played higurashi chapter 2 watanagashi. loved this one awesome track. googled it. it's called fascism
similarly to the first chapter, watanagashi-hen is pretty slow at the start. once the pace picks up, it gets REALLY good. this chapter is honestly even better than the first one; i was genuinely curling my toes while reading it. watanagashi-hen is just as scary as onikakushi-hen (if not scarier). i highly recommend it, especially if you're considering getting into the rest of the series. it's worth the time and...
Ragebaitrashi: When I cry part 2. (Worst horror/mystery story i have experienced so far oat With currently the worst mc oat and I grew up on the scifi channel with sharktopus.) Not as bad as 1 but still poor. Dude cant tell if he wants to write a horror, slice of life, or mystery. Yes u can have all of them in a story but he makes them all the center focus in certain sections to the point that none of them are the...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.2 Watanagashi scores 95/100 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/410890/higurashi-when-they-cry-hou-ch-2-watanagashiReviews 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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