Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
Last updated: 2025-12-28
- Masterful psychological horror narrative experience
- Exceptional character writing and development
- Impactful and memorable game ending
- Slow and dragging early game pacing
- Inconsistent and forced later pacing issues
- Psychological horror may deter some players
Emotions
Excitement10%Satisfaction8%Frustration8%Fear7%Nostalgia6%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 5,835
- Positive
- 5,62696.4%
- Negative
- 2093.6%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 322,153
- Estimated revenue
- Not applicable
- Game price
- F2P
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 80.75%
- Estimated copies lost
- 442
- Estimated revenue lost
- Not applicable
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 80.7% Avg playtime 0.7h | 575.3% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 171.6% Avg playtime 7.9h | 99092.4% Avg playtime 17.4h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.3 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 3.6 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 16.3 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 3,879.5 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
1,072 total
Organic purchasers534.94%
Voted up: 96%
Key activations1,01995.1%
Voted up: 98%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
1,072 total
First impression0-2h898.30%
Voted up: 89%
Mid game2-10h36834.3%
Voted up: 97%
Late game10-20h45142.1%
Voted up: 99%
Endgame20h+16415.3%
Voted up: 99%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 97.7%
29 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 5,835 total.