
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.
Revenue comes from in-game items and microtransactions, which our price-based model doesn't estimate. The player count below is how many people own it, not what they spent.
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Languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese
Sums Steam only; GOG publishes no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | Free | 6.8Kreviews | 96% | — | $0 |
| Free | 171ratings | 88% | — | not modelled |
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Themes across 332 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
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神,诞生了。
If I did all my research right, this is supposed to be the beginning of the entire Higurashi series, including the anime adaptations. This game is unplayable when you play it outright, so you have to install something called the 07Mod to make it play like a standard/modern Visual Novel. One of the anime adaptations of this specific installment of the visual novel follows the plot almost succinctly but gives it a bit more of a rush to the plot, because they infer you've already read this to the finish. I can't say anything about the story of this game because it will spoil this game and the entire franchise as a whole. For people who have absolutely no idea what the Hell this is and want to give it a try it on a whim because it's free, I'll at least give you one clue. This is similar to Doki Doki Literature Club, like expect that sort of plot twist. If you really enjoy games like Doki Doki, this franchise is absolutely for you and you should play it right now. If you're not super familiar with Doki Doki Literature Club, you may still like this but you may not be one of those players that sticks with the entire Higurashi franchise. All in all, this is a very good visual novel, one of the best you can play, especially for free.
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Hours played at review time, across 334 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
the start is so slow like insanely slow, its funny until you get to chapter 7 and its like how many more club activities can you take. after that the horror is entertaining at least and keichi acts predictably stupid lol maybe just watch the anime if this sounds boring but i dont regret reading the first handful of chapters to a point. it dripfeeds you horror and then waterboards you with it
视觉小说这一形式所带来的沉浸感和视听体验果然是独特的。和看动画的感受完全不一样。最后追加内容里对故事疑点以及“认为说”“作祟说”的观点讨论也让人产生种种猜测。这种故事,真是一旦开始看就停不下来了。
Jesteśmy młodym chłopakiem w jakimś wipizdowie, mamy mamy 4 koleżanki w tym: małą wredną cholere, przewodniczącą klasy co też jest dzieckiem wójta tej wioski, koleżanki która by popełniłaby przestępstwo by zdobyć coś co jest urocze, i ta najspokojniejsza. Czy coś może pójść nie tak? poza tym jest za darmo więc jest 10000/10
i kill you kill me
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虽然但是玩得好困啊目前qwq 二编:玩到后面清醒了 这是个什么游戏体验,先哄睡再唤醒(?
好玩,可惜没有语音
神作
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