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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
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 players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“As the opening chapter of Higurashi, I think it absolutely nails the suspense, it tells this sort of low-key folk-horror mystery and introduces the first big puzzle of the series, setting up everything to come. I actually watched the anime first before playing, and while the…”
— a player, Steam review · 12 hrs played“It starts off pretty slow with the first few chapters being slice of life stuff with a few hints of something bigger being sprinkled in here and there. we get well accustomed to the characters and their personalities which makes it even more impactful when everything is flipped…”
— a player, Steam review · 20 hrs played“I ABSOLUTELY recommend this visual novel!! The story is really interisting and I find Onikakushi to be a really good start for the Higurashi WTC series: it confuses you, it messes with your head, it makes you doubt about everything you saw so far in the game... I also want to…”
— a player, Steam review · 26 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 10:13 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Higurashi When They Cry Chapter 1 Onikakushi is now available in Chinese!
Higurashi When They Cry Chapter 1 Onikakushi is now available in Simplified Chinese! Please choose the Chinese depot from the library, property menu to enable it. The remaining chapters will be releas
Higurashi When They Cry Hou+ Now Available on Steam!
https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images/33017084/b30f1c832daffec065ce6bf624e86d8f67c46064.png The relentless cycle of tragedy surrounding Hinamizawa and the club members has finally ended. Peac
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https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33017084/fe266b8d9a64fd5d1f9d4bc1c3dcd839427d7a53.jpg The relentless cycle of tragedy surrounding Hinamizawa and the club members
Enjoy a Tale of Indie Development From the Creators of The House in Fata Morgana!
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【HIGURASHI】GOODBYE, HINAMIZAWA
GOODBYE, HINAMIZAWA Makoto & Akira Misaki Time: Wednesday, December 1st at 6PM PT / 9PM ET / 11AM JST / 2AM GMT This will be our last Higurashi stream! ── °˖✧ ✈ ✧˖° ── Akira and Makoto Misaki from Man
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Adventure |
| Player tags | Visual Novel · Mystery · Anime · Psychological · Story Rich · Dark · Atmospheric · Cult Classic · Singleplayer · Adventure · Cute · Great Soundtrack (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese |
| Achievements | 14 |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.mangagamer.org/07thExpansion/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP, 7, 8 Processor: Pentium III 800 MHz Memory: 512 MB RAM DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 500 MB available space