Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.4 Himatsubushi
BANGER · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $5.99.
- Length
- 6.1h
- Value
- $0.98/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
It has never been cheaper than $1.79. That was December 2017. 64 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
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, Bendy and the Ink Machine ($19.99, scores 55) and Bad Parenting 1: Mr. Red Face ($1.99, scores 56), are both worse buys on this math.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $7.67. It costs $5.99.
This site sampled 320 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
66% start to 57% 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
What players say
Ragebaitrashi: When I cry 4 Uh idk how to rlly feel ab this one, it was kinda a nothing soulless burger but better than what is expected of higu. Its a lil worse than 3 with 3 being the best so far. In the party game it literally says this is the best part of higurashi now at the end of the question arcs cuz u can have fun theorizing, no, no u cant. Chars r bland, annoying, or weird. Plot points that lead to...
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.4 Himatsubushi scores 90/100 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/526490/higurashi-when-they-cry-hou-ch-4-himatsubushiReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 1.
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