Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.3 Tatarigoroshi
Released Jun 2016
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.
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All announced content has been released
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Evaluation
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.3 Tatarigoroshi is one chapter in a long-running episodic visual novel series. This specific chapter released on June 17, 2016 as a self-contained story arc — it is not a live-updating game, nor does it have DLC or post-launch content of its own.
The developer news associated with this Steam page reflects the publisher's broader activity across the entire Higurashi/When They Cry franchise, not updates to Ch.3 itself. Posts announce subsequent chapters (Ch.5 Meakashi in April 2017, Ch.6 Tsumihoroboshi in June 2018, Ch.7 Minagoroshi in July 2019, Ch.8 Matsuribayashi in May 2020), a BGM/SFX re-recording update in April 2019, the release of spinoff titles (Ciconia When They Cry in October 2019, Higurashi Rei in June 2022), and the compilation release Higurashi When They Cry Hou+ in November 2023.
Notably, the November 2023 release of Higurashi When They Cry Hou+ is a separate, complete compilation product that bundles all chapters of the series, representing the definitive collected release. Ch.3 Tatarigoroshi itself is a fixed, standalone chapter of a completed series with no post-launch content cycle, no announced future additions, and no unreleased DLC. It launched as a finished product and has remained so.
Evidence
Higurashi When They Cry Hou+ released as a compilation of the full series, representing the complete collected package of all Higurashi chapters on Steam.
Ch.8 Matsuribayashi released, described as 'the final conclusion' to the Higurashi series, confirming the main story arc is complete.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
MangaGamer
Achievements
16
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
The 58th year of Shouwa, early summer.
It’s June, and the summer heat has arrived earlier than it does most years.
By day there are crickets, and by night there are cicadas.
We’re in Hinamizawa, a small village in the countryside.
There are fewer than two thousand people here. But every year, there is an event.
This event is a mysterious death.
On a certain day in June, someone dies, and someone else goes missing.
The series of deaths is connected to the upheaval surrounding the dam construction project.
A murder case that was covered up is being reenacted.
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 dead now.
And someone who is here right now isn’t alive.
So, there is no way to avert tragedy. There is no choice but to give up.
But don’t give up.
Only you can stand up to this.
It’s June, and the summer heat has arrived earlier than it does most years.
By day there are crickets, and by night there are cicadas.
We’re in Hinamizawa, a small village in the countryside.
There are fewer than two thousand people here. But every year, there is an event.
This event is a mysterious death.
On a certain day in June, someone dies, and someone else goes missing.
The series of deaths is connected to the upheaval surrounding the dam construction project.
A murder case that was covered up is being reenacted.
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 dead now.
And someone who is here right now isn’t alive.
So, there is no way to avert tragedy. There is no choice but to give up.
But don’t give up.
Only you can stand up to this.
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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