Higurashi - When They Cry

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.

Higurashi.rar - 234.6 MB

190 comments

NekoHunter08 May 2010Reply

Finally found the english version of Higurashi. :D Thanks alot. Will you continue to upload the rest of it if it is released?

admin08 May 2010Reply

Of course. My goal is to have every visual novel/eroge ever released in English available as download on this site.

sji6720 Mar 2011Reply

admin, you have my email, let me know what I can do to help. :D

NekoHunter11 May 2010Reply

Looking forward to it. ^^

LyricAngel15 May 2010Reply

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?

admin15 May 2010Reply

Yes, you're running the wrong exe. If you use cracked one, you won't get asked for serial.

LyricAngel15 May 2010Reply

^.^ ok! thank you very much

ty10 Jun 2010Reply

thanks a lot !

Harajakou19 Jun 2010Reply

Can´t find the cracked exe -.- please help

admin20 Jun 2010Reply

It's just below game download link - it's labeled "Crack Download"

Gezegond05 Jul 2010Reply

Whoa, thanks a lot!

rika24 Jul 2010Reply

what number game is this in the series? is it number 1?

admin24 Jul 2010Reply

This download contains all question arcs - games 1-4

keiichi25 Jul 2010Reply

The cracked version doesn't work for me. I need a serial number generator.

Izanyan02 Aug 2010Reply

Thanks a lot! :D

RaShayRitto23 Aug 2010Reply

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

Desu19 Sep 2010Reply

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. (:

ryo05 Oct 2010Reply

admin are you a god?!The god of all the eroge and visual novel in english!!^^

That Guy19 Oct 2010Reply

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!

0721 Oct 2010Reply

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?

Anaerobia06 Nov 2010Reply

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....

JustWondering13 Nov 2010Reply

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)

???19 Nov 2010Reply

Now, there aren't any decisions! But it's great, anyway!
Oh my God, I've been looking for this everywhere!
:D Hauu! ~Going mad with the Hinamizawa Syndrome~!

John26 Nov 2010Reply

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 :)

admin27 Nov 2010Reply

There are 8 episodes in total and all of them are available - just check http://erogedownload.com/downloads/ for list.

ditto29 Nov 2010Reply

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

Anon?30 Nov 2010Reply

@ditto
you have to put the crack files into the game folder, the game should work that way

Civ23 Dec 2010Reply

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?

Andrew23 Dec 2010Reply

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?

Anon?25 Dec 2010Reply

@Andrew
Himatsubushi-hen is unlocked when you finish Tatarigoroshi-hen(the 3rd arc)

2Din3D03 Jan 2011Reply

admin...
u are GOD XD

thx for the upload...
really... ^^

Jason05 Jan 2011Reply

love how the patch is 666kb

Takashi08 Jan 2011Reply

Hello! I promoted your page for the Higurashi games. I hope you dont mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTZboQYBjds

admin08 Jan 2011Reply

Thanks, this is really helpful.

Anonymous12 Jan 2011Reply

I hope it works on me. I'm already downloading it! ^^

D714 Jan 2011Reply

The file data02000.arc doesn't work. It's broke ~.~

tsubasa18 Feb 2011Reply

I've downloaded the cracked version but i cant seem to open it.. Please help!!

unknown18 Feb 2011Reply

OMG i have been waiting forever for this after watching the series and now it available

this is awesome thank you loads ^^

Ally20 Feb 2011Reply

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! :D <3

Zfish928 Feb 2011Reply

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.

Zfish928 Feb 2011Reply

Nevermind, I got it to work. It wouldn't work on my flashdrive, I had to move the files back onto the computer.

Zizi07 Mar 2011Reply

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?

Kaze08 Mar 2011Reply

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?

Confused10 Mar 2011Reply

It says there is chapters 1-4 included in the download, but the game only has three listed. Is there actually only 3 chapters?

Canavi14 Mar 2011Reply

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.

djr715 Mar 2011Reply

file has been removed???
i can download crack it looks like but the game says its been removed
PLZ HELP!!!

Luigy17 Mar 2011Reply

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

admin18 Mar 2011Reply

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.