
This is the 2nd half of the Umineko When They Cry sound novel series, featuring episodes 5 through 8. This steam version features multi-language options, swap-able renewed character sprites, as well as the original BGMs and un-cut content.
Modeled estimate, not a reported figure. How we estimate →
Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Every market we collect.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 1.17/day in the week to Aug 5 → 0.57/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Genres
Sums Steam only; GOG publishes no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $29.99 | 1.6Kreviews | 96% | — | $753.3K |
| $17.99−40% | 59ratings | 92% | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 106 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
steam上最好的视觉小说
no but seriously guys i still havent figured out how the candy got in the cup can someone help me please i dont get it im losing my mind
i dedicate a 10/10 to my beloved golden witch
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Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, Japanese
Hours played at review time, across 106 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
The witch shall praise the wise and bestow four treasures. One shall be all the gold from the Golden Land. One shall be the resurrection of all the dead souls. One shall be the resurrection of the love that was lost. One shall be to put the witch to sleep for all time. Sleep peacefully, my beloved witch, Beatrice.
Hello, witches~ Most of the time, Fiction is weaving lies and shaping them into truth, then making readers regard them as reality. The word “fiction” itself already illustrates this. However, there is also a vast gap between fictions. A good script merely creates lies by studying structure and text, exploring writing tricks that reveal lies or wordplay to readers. This is precisely the basic duty of a writer, being conventional and understandable. A bad script is an imitation and piling of existing writing tricks, without bringing new structural genre creative contributions or new literary aesthetic experiences. It is assembly-line industrial waste, which is full of arrogance and crudeness. An excellent script reveals the truth of reality through fabricated lies, a magical flash of love and inspiration, showcasing the coincidental common logic between different things, encouraging readers to think independently about the connection between fiction and reality. I can feel full of passion and subtlety. Fortunately, Umineko is a good script with masterful tricks. The entire story showcases its masterful skills and extraordinary creativity in puzzle reasoning, prosecution and defense, and, of course, propaganda (in the fairy tale and anti-fairy tale in ep6-7). Even more fortunately, Umineko is an excellent script. Cutting open this three-dimensional cheese, I can see that the reality Umineko links to is a reflection on mystery fiction, fiction genres, the tool of narrative, and even and truth versus reality. It does not impose numerous prerequisites for the sake of reasoning or provide standard answers, but instead guides me to observe, feel, and reflect: the credibility of testimony and the validity of evidence, the rules of investigation and trial, the positions of authors and readers, and the brutality of homogeneous revenge, the arrogance of 'superman' in judging criminals, and the laziness of appealing to love. In fact, Umineko actually made a "criminal statement" right from the start: [i] "This story is [b] very obviously [/b] fictional and fantastic in nature" [/i], declaring the nature of the work and hinting at the "correct" perspective for solving puzzles and reading. In some ways, Umineko can be seen as an interesting literature review of detective fiction, a script reconstructed from deconstruction, much like Don Quixote to chivalric novels. Then, the topic of Umineko, I think it’s about decision. North wind or sun, technological theory or magical theory, presumption of guilt or innocence, claimed truth or infinite possibilities, magic or “glue”, trick or treat. A thousand readers from different backgrounds have a thousand prepositions which leads to a thousand truths they choose to see. Faced with the final question of EP8, should I make decisions from the outside of the stage, or from the inside? Should I choose to have a faith in love and seek for unknowable infinity, or uncover the scheme through reasoning and interrogation based on known evidence? Should I choose golden land, or reality? When I personally add the Whydunit, the unknow focus point of the case, to the story, the possibilities in the catbox would collapse into the only truth Ange believes in, and also, I believes in. Without love, it cannot be seen. All right, these are the truth I have observed and arrived yet. Now I should let the aftertaste of the story continue to flow in my mind. Bravo! Umineko is Ve↑ry↓ GooD! Thanks for Ryukishi07's treat!
riddle me this batman, without love, it cannot be seen?
재밌음
One of the best gothic mysteries I've read.
beyond peak
Listen, by the time you read all the question arcs you might as well read Episodes 5 - 8. and you should read the question arcs because they are very, very good. so following that logic there is no reason not to recommend this, even if I personally disliked the overall theme of the work. Without Love it cannot be seen or whatever.
Active players
Estimated daily and monthly active players (DAU/MAU) modeled from peak concurrency.
Players by region
Where this game's players are, estimated from review languages.
Players also reviewed
The games this title's players most often review too — audience affinity.
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