Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.5 Meakashi
BANGER · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $7.99.
- Length
- 9.7h
- Value
- $0.82/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128MB DirectX 9c Compatible (Pixel Shader 2.0+), 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 $3.19. That was November 2019. Its cuts run 35 percent off as a rule. There have been 60 in the 9 years tracked, about 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. Among the games closest to it, The Medium ($49.99, scores 46) and Bendy and the Ink Machine ($19.99, scores 55) both come in lower.
The math says it holds its tier up to $15.56, and you are being asked for $7.99.
Steam's global achievement data puts 62 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 316 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
69% start to 62% 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
16 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 11:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This chapter was so vulnerable and intense that it made me cry multiple throughout the entire thing and ill probably cry while putting this but shions character was so well written, that the idea of sympathy, guilt, revenge, and jealousy were so potent. I think the things that made me cry the most over this chapter was shions ultimate descent into this entirely different characxter, literally turning her into...
The beginning of the Answer Arcs and now we finally arrive at Chapter 5 of Higurashi. This chapter finally starts resolving some of the main mysteries from Watanagashi. This time we get Shion as the main character and I really liked how deeply the game goes into her psyche. You're not really supposed to forgive her, but instead understand her story and how everything eventually led to what happened. The chapter also...
I'm genuinely so baffled by it all it's amazing. I'm left with more questions somehow too... this is supposed to be answer!!! ffs!! ...anyways. I like it. If you're reading this, please find the truth. That's my only wish.
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.5 Meakashi scores 98/100 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/577480/higurashi-when-they-cry-hou-ch-5-meakashiReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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