Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.7 Minagoroshi (2019) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.7 Minagoroshi

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…

0 18 July 2019

What Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.7 Minagoroshi is

Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.7 Minagoroshi is an adventure game developed by 07th Expansion and released in 2019. It was published by MangaGamer. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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…

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How it plays

It is played from a auditory perspective. Its themes are horror and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Higurashi When They Cry series

Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.7 Minagoroshi is the 92nd of 107 entries we hold in the Higurashi When They Cry series. It arrived 12 months after Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou. The next entry was Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Answer Arcs in 2020.

See all 107 Higurashi When They Cry games in release order →

How it was received

Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.7 Minagoroshi holds a critic score of 0 out of 100. That places it above 0% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 69 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Higurashi When They Cry Hou: Ch.7 Minagoroshi launched on 18 July 2019, within three weeks of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Super Mario Maker 2, The Sinking City and Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Super Mario Maker 2, The Sinking City, Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers.

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