Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.5 Meakashi
Released Apr 2017
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.
98% positive · 1,173 reviews
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Evaluation
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.5 Meakashi is one chapter in a multi-part visual novel series. The full series has now been completely released on Steam. Following Ch.5 Meakashi (April 2017), the developer released Ch.6 Tsumihoroboshi (June 2018), Ch.7 Minagoroshi (July 2019), and Ch.8 Matsuribayashi (May 2020), which was explicitly marketed as "the final conclusion" to the Higurashi story. After that, supplemental content continued: the standalone Higurashi Rei was released on June 3, 2022, and most recently, Higurashi When They Cry Hou+ — a bundled compilation described as containing other unexplored story fragments — launched on November 10, 2023. With the complete series now available and no further chapters or content announced for this specific storyline, the content of the Higurashi Hou series is complete. Ch.5 Meakashi itself is a standalone chapter in that finished series, and no additional updates or content have been announced for it.
Evidence
Higurashi When They Cry Hou+ released on Steam, described as containing remaining unexplored story fragments, representing the final release in the Higurashi Hou series on Steam.
Ch.8 Matsuribayashi released and explicitly marketed as 'the final conclusion' to Higurashi When They Cry.
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Details
Developer
Publisher
MangaGamer
Achievements
16
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
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.
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.
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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