Higurashi no Naku Koro ni takes place during June 1983, at a fictional rural village called Hinamizawa (based on the village of Shirakawa, Gifu, a World Heritage Site),which has a population of approximately 2,000. The main character, Keiichi Maebara, moves to Hinamizawa and befriends his new classmates Rena Ryuugu, Mion Sonozaki, Rika Furude, and Satoko Hojo. Keiichi joins their after-school club activities, which consist mostly of card and board games (and punishment games for the loser, usually him.) Hinamizawa appears to be a normal, peaceful, rural village to Keiichi. However, the tranquility abruptly ends after the annual Watanagashi Festival, a celebration to commemorate and give thanks to the local god, Oyashiro. Keiichi learns that every year for the past four years, one person has been murdered and another has gone missing on the day of the Watanagashi Festival. Keiichi himself soon becomes drawn into the strange events surrounding the Watanagashi Festival and Oyashiro. In each story arc, he or one of his friends become paranoid, and a crime is committed. Usually, the crime involves the murder of one of their own friends. While it seems impossible to tell their delusions apart from the mystery of Hinamizawa, slowly the truth is revealed.
Finally found the english version of Higurashi. 😀 Thanks alot. Will you continue to upload the rest of it if it is released?
Of course. My goal is to have every visual novel/eroge ever released in English available as download on this site.
admin, you have my email, let me know what I can do to help. 😀
Looking forward to it. ^^
um im really glad that you have this i’ve been looking for it for a really long time. but when i try to install the game, it askes me for a serial code number… am i doing something wrong?
Yes, you’re running the wrong exe. If you use cracked one, you won’t get asked for serial.
^.^ ok! thank you very much
thanks a lot !
Can´t find the cracked exe -.- please help
It’s just below game download link – it’s labeled “Crack Download”
Whoa, thanks a lot!
what number game is this in the series? is it number 1?
This download contains all question arcs – games 1-4
The cracked version doesn’t work for me. I need a serial number generator.
Thanks a lot! 😀
Thanks for this! I appreciate the work you do for this site very much, lots of great uploads here that can otherwise be hard to find.
Looking forward to playing the answer arcs after this
Ah, I’m having the same problem as ‘keiichi’ up there. Whenever I attempt to open the cracked file, higurashi.exe , it sends a message titled ‘Error!!’
Maybe I’m doing something incorrectly, but if there’s a way for you to help, it’d be much appreciated!
Thank you for all of your dowloads. (:
admin are you a god?!The god of all the eroge and visual novel in english!!^^
Thank you so much for posting these! I had just finished watching the anime, and i heard that the sound novels where better so i had to check them out!
Same problem as keiichi and Desu. Clicking on the crack only gets me a pop-up titled “Error!!”. Then there’s some japanese characters and [ system.arc : ipl._bp ], that spacing exactly. Any ideas?
wow….all you have to do is place the cracked exe in your higurashi directory…the error message you are getting means that it can’t find the archive files….
are there any decision points in this game (i ask because i have been playing for a while and one has yet to come up)
Now, there aren’t any decisions! But it’s great, anyway!
Oh my God, I’ve been looking for this everywhere!
😀 Hauu! ~Going mad with the Hinamizawa Syndrome~!
Any reason why there are 2 “when they cry” games to download from this wonderful site? 🙂
I saw that ep 5-6 are released in english but I havnt been able to locate them. If you find them/have any luck it would be nice 🙂
There are 8 episodes in total and all of them are available – just check http://erogedownload.com/downloads/ for list.
i dunno how to get it to work ;-;
i have the crack file download and the normal downloaded too but i don’;t know how to get them to work
@ditto
you have to put the crack files into the game folder, the game should work that way
I put the crack download in the regular folder but even then it just has a black screen for a while and then says(Not Responding) before closing itself. Any suggestions?
Hey there. Just wanted to check, after downloading this, I don’t see the 4th arc (Himatsubushi) available. Is it unlocked through gameplay or just missing?
@Andrew
Himatsubushi-hen is unlocked when you finish Tatarigoroshi-hen(the 3rd arc)
admin…
u are GOD XD
thx for the upload…
really… ^^
love how the patch is 666kb
Hello! I promoted your page for the Higurashi games. I hope you dont mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTZboQYBjds
Thanks, this is really helpful.
I hope it works on me. I’m already downloading it! ^^
The file data02000.arc doesn’t work. It’s broke ~.~
I’ve downloaded the cracked version but i cant seem to open it.. Please help!!
OMG i have been waiting forever for this after watching the series and now it available
this is awesome thank you loads ^^
I have been wanting to play this game for SOOO long, so I want to thank you once again. I have played through most of the first arc and I am totally in love with it. So, once again, thank you very much! 😀 <3
I’m having the same problem as Civ. I got the game downloaded, moved the cracked exe into the Higurashi directory, and all I get is a black window that doesn’t respond.
Nevermind, I got it to work. It wouldn’t work on my flashdrive, I had to move the files back onto the computer.
I have both of the versions downloaded. What does it mean to place the cracked file into the directory? Because I’ve tried what I think it means via WinRAR, and I keep getting error messages. What am I doing wrong?
The crack download doesn’t work for me anymore… It did for a bit, but now when I try to open it, I just get an error screen… What should I do?
It says there is chapters 1-4 included in the download, but the game only has three listed. Is there actually only 3 chapters?
All four are there.
You have to complete Tatarigoroshi (the 3rd) before Himatsubushi (the 4th) is unlocked.
However, you can forcefully unlock the 4th chapter by clicking Extra in the menu, clicking Unlock Previous Chapters, then clicking Tatarigoroshi.
file has been removed???
i can download crack it looks like but the game says its been removed
PLZ HELP!!!
All The Hotfile links in this site are down and I really want to get some of the games here like KiraKira – Curtain Call and Higurashi When They Cry
Just like you said – most of hotfile links were removed. I’m uploading all games again to fileserve now, but it’s over 300 GB of data so it takes time. Be patient.
the fileserve link is down, or is it not re-uploaded yet? sorry i’ve been dying to get this so i’m a bit impatient lol
It’s working for me, just checked.
thanks for the novel, guess it was probably something to do with my ip address.
could it be possible for you to upload 6th and 7th arc again? those 2 are the only ones still down as of now. thank you ^^
Which version is this? + the other higurashis you uploaded
I want to patch the game with the PS2 sprites,BG,Voice,etcc
Also do you know how to patch?
I’m having the same problem with the data02000.arc file being broken, as well as not seeing any crack download anywhere.
Is it just me being dumb? XD
Thanks 🙂
Nevermind, problem solved with redownloading it.
thanks for the game though! 🙂
I just saw an ADORABLE Rena-Cosplayer…I’ll take her home with me! Hao!
where can i find crack?
This version is already cracked.
i got to be honest. Its harder without the crack. i need help
What’s hard about this? Just extract and play.
hyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…. higurashiiiiiiiiii X3
finally there is an english version …… X3
thanksssssss XDDD
Very nice game… and nice website 😀 Thanks a lot XD
Whenever I extract it, it stops at the middle saying that there’s an error or something. And when I click the new game, a message box appears… It’s all gibberish <_<
wow.. higurashi.. im interested but.. is this really as intense as i think it is??.. im somewhat weak-hearted.. lol.. but if anyone wants to really recommend it.. please do so.. ^^
and admin thanks for all the hard work.. currently enjoying my 6th game from here so far.. 😀
I would really recommend this game. I haven’t actually read this sound novel yet, I’ve only read manga chapters, watched all the anime, and played Umineko. so, I’m not sure of the more “gore” and “horror” aspects that people attribute to this. The manga and anime may be more intense. i know for sure the Umineko anime was more intense than the sound novel in my opinion. it could just as well be the same for Higurashi as well. But anyway, I definitely think Higurashi has an awesome story that is well worth reading.
Tnx! Your site is awesome!