# Higurashi When They Cry Hou \- Ch\.8 Matsuribayashi

Summer DB entity ID: 0936d3b6\-996f\-4ac8\-bee6\-0cb01ae3d7c5

Steam App ID: 1243670

Story   June, 1983\.    The summer heat has arrived earlier than it does most years\.  By day there are cicadas, and by night, the higurashi\.  Hinamizawa, a small village in the Japanese countryside\.  While there are fewer than two thousand people there, every year, 'something' happens\.  For the past 4 years, someone has died, and someone else has gone missing\.  This series of deaths and disappearances is connected to the local resistance against a now\-abandoned dam construction project\.  A murder during the construction, covered up by the local authorities, is being re\-enacted year after year\.  Is it a conspiracy? A coincidence? Or perhaps a curse?  Someone who was supposed to be there\.\.\. isn't\.  Someone who wasn't supposed to be there\.\.\. is\.  Someone who was alive last night is now dead, and someone who is here right now isn't alive\.  There is no way to avert this tragedy\. There is no choice but to give up trying\.   But even so\.\.\.  please don't give up\.  Gameplay 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\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: 07th Expansion

- Publisher: MangaGamer

- Release date: May 14, 2020

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Adventure

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1243670/ss\_464770776a7a7331ca79f1c50d6f18826e18c7cf\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1725522793, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1243670/ss\_f0f6008037bcbbba7cf0ed8730086c9dfb473621\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1725522793, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1243670/ss\_bdc8ade2d35a081bbd284dfc5b698c17ec9d80d1\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1725522793, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1243670/ss\_5c8d46455384397df255ea9089c011c6dc88ce5f\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1725522793, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1243670/ss\_8a119cb9a830c4b14b5d1d87dc47309eeffc87d2\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1725522793

- Price: 799 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 17

- Steam review count: 895

- Steam positive reviews: 851

- Steam negative reviews: 44

- Steam positive percentage: 95.08379888268156%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

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Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:01:20\.170727\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:01:21\.330757\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:01:21\.162813\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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