Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.7 Minagoroshi
Released Jul 2019
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.
96% positive · 783 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Evaluation
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.7 Minagoroshi is Chapter 7 of a multi-chapter visual novel series, released on July 18, 2019. It is a self-contained story chapter — a fixed narrative release with no post-launch content updates, no DLC, and no announced additions.
The developer's news activity on this page consists of announcements for other chapters in the series: Ch.8 Matsuribayashi (May 2020), Higurashi Rei (June 2022), and the compilation Higurashi When They Cry Hou+ (November 2023). These posts are cross-promotions for separate products rather than updates to Ch.7 itself. Ch.7 shipped as a complete, standalone story chapter, and no additional content has been announced or delivered for it since its release date.
Evidence
Ch.7 Minagoroshi launched on July 18, 2019 as a complete story chapter in the Higurashi series, with no mention of post-launch content or updates.
Higurashi When They Cry Hou+ launched as a compilation product on Steam. Not an update to Ch.7.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
MangaGamer
Achievements
14
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
—
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 19, 2026
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