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Umineko: Golden Fantasia
The tag-team fighting game based on the original "Umineko When They Cry" series, finally released on Steam, in English and with improved rollback netplay!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“i can finally beat up george for liking them young”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“I want to eat Kanons ribcage for breakfast. Hauuu!!! Omochikaeri!!!!!”
— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played“Umineko: Golden Fantasia, developed by 07th Expansion and published by MangaGamer, is a distinctive 2D fighting game that transforms a dense, narrative-heavy visual novel universe into a competitive, tag-based combat system. Rather than attempting to replicate the slow, cerebral…”
— a player, Steam review · 16 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 20:14 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
A New Experimental Netplay Patch!
We're happy to announce a new update to the existing community branch, and a new experimental netplay branch! This branch works on fixing desyncs for various characters, and has breaking changes that
Public Community Beta Patch
On December 31, 2010, Umineko: Golden Fantasia's original Japanese release was at Comiket 79. Today, nearly 15 years later it's returning to the hands of independent artists and fans on Steam via a ne
Steam Remote Play Now Integrated!
When we set out to ship Golden Fantasia on Steam, we had two goals in mind - localize the title, and make the netplay better than it used to be. The second proved to be a much more difficult, and comp
Trading Cards now available!
Trading Cards have now been enabled in Steam, and we have posted on the Steam discussion forum all the latest patch notes, along with our intentions for the next upcoming patch! You can read the full
Trading Cards now available!
Trading Cards have now been enabled in Steam, and we have posted on the Steam discussion forum all the latest patch notes, along with our intentions for the next upcoming patch! You can read the full
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, Indie |
| Player tags | Action · Fighting · 2D Fighter · Indie · Anime · Multiplayer · Arcade · Memes · 2D · Visual Novel · Psychological Horror · Fantasy (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Shared/Split Screen · Steam Trading Cards · Partial Controller Support |
| Languages | English, Japanese * * |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://07th-expansion.net/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP or newer Processor: Intel Core 2/Core 2 Quad/Core i3/i5/i7 GPU Memory: 3 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT/8500GT/9400GT/GT220 Or Better DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 2500 MB available space