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ZUN, the original creator of Touhou Project who also runs Team Shanghai Alice, revealed the series' 20th mainline entry. The new game will appear under the title Touhou Kinjoukyou: Fossilized Wonders, and it will be available in mid-August 2025 at Comic Market 106 in Japan. A release outside of Comiket hasn't been announced yet.

To mark the major milestone of reaching the 20th mainline entry, ZUN will release Fossilized Wonders as an orthodox shoot 'em up game with linear stage progressions and multiple difficulty levels. The new game will also feature Wonder Stones that can provide additional kinds of attacks.

Here's an initial screenshot showing how it will look:

Fossilized Wonders will also return to the series' roots by having only Reimu and Marisa as the two available player characters. However, ZUN will still offer a decent amount of gameplay variations by adding eight Main Story Stones that the player can choose from at the beginning of a playthrough.

The preceding 19th mainline entry in 2023, Touhou Juuouen: Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost, primarily featured a versus mode with numerous playable characters. The gameplay system transition between the 19th and 20th entries is thus reminiscent of that between the 2005 9th entry—Touhou Kaeizuka: Phantasmagoria of Flower View—and the 2007 10th entry—Touhou Fujinroku: Mountain of Faith.

Touhou Kinjoukyou: Fossilized Wonders will appear first via a demo version release at the 22nd Hakurei Shrine Reitaisai event at Tokyo Big Sight on May 5, 2025. The full PC release will follow later at Comic Market 106, which will take place at the same venue on August 16-17, 2025. Team Shanghai Alice will also release the game digitally worldwide on Steam after that, as the company has done with past entries in the shoot'em up series.

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Good Smile Company is re-releasing the 2.0 Touhou Project Reimu Hakurei Nendoroid. She’ll come out in July 2024 for Japan and Q4 2024 for North America.

For those in Japan, she’ll cost 6800 JPY, which is approximately $46.30. If you purchase her from the North America shop, it will cost you $33.99. The updated Reimu Hakurei Nendoroid originally came out in June 2020, and it was an upgrade of the original 2011 Nendoroid. Both versions of the little figure have very similar face plates and optional parts. However, the 2.0 Nendoroid has a more modern aesthetic.

Here's a closer look at this Touhou Project Reimu Nendoroid:

The Reimu Hakurei 2.0 Nendoroid will come with three face plates, which is standard for most Nendoroids. You can give her a standard cheery expression, a combative serious expression, and a cute relaxed expression. As for the optional parts, you can decorate her with her prayer rod, charm cards, a donation box, a cup of tea, and kneeling parts. With these parts, there is a wide variety of poses you can have display your Reimu. Unlike the original version of the Nendoroid though, the 2.0 edition will not come with a yin-yang stand.

The Reimu Hakurei 2.0 Nendoroid is available for pre-order from Good Smile Company.

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Team Shanghai Alice and Mediascape released Touhou Juuouen (“Beast King Garden”) ~ Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost, entry 19 in the Touhou Project series of bullet-hell shooting games, at Comiket Summer 2023. The full game is now available on Steam at the price of $14.99. A demo of the game is available for free on Steam. Currently, the game is not available in English.

The game features a single-player story mode, PVP matches that are playable via split-screen, LAN play, or online play, Player vs. Computer matches, and Computer vs. Computer matches. In competitive mode, players will avoid the attacks of their opponent while sending barrages of bullets their way. The gameplay is similar to that of the ninth installment, Touhou Flower Reflecting Mound ~ Phantasmagoria of Flower View. Reimu, Marisa, and other characters fans will recognize return once again as playable characters.

This game, along with all of the other Touhou Project games that came prior, is developed by Team Shanghai Alice. They are a doujin group that has only one member — ZUN, the man behind the story, artwork, and programming for all of the Touhou Project games.

Touhou Juuouen 19 ~ Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost is available now on Steam for $14.99. A demo of the game is also available on Steam for free. As of now, the game is only in Japanese.

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The 18.5th addition to the Touhou Project franchise, Black Market of Bulletphilia ~ 100th Black Market, has a page on the Steam online storefront. However, there is no release date or price tag as of yet. In of chronology, 100th Black Market takes place after Unconnected Marketeers and follows Kirisame Marisa on her investigation. [Thanks, 4Gamer!]

According to the Steam page, it will have the same basic system as the previous game in which you collect Ability Cards to fight. There are also a lot of new cards. Under the modified battle system, the game will have a stronger element of randomness and speed to it. Additionally, the Steam page notes that there is no English for the game.

100th Black Market is a game that ZUN made to commemorate Comiket 100. Those visiting Comiket, which will take place on August 13 and 14, 2022, can actually get the game there. It is unclear if the Steam version will appear around that date or if it will be a while in the future. You can view some of the screenshots from the game on Steam as well. For example, there is a picture of a Cirno card that you can buy for 160 Bullet Money.

Black Market of Bulletphilia ~ 100th Black Market ~ will be the latest entry in the Touhou Project franchise. It will come out on Windows PC sometime in the near future.

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Touhou Project creator ZUN will release a new game at the milestone-reaching Comic Market 100. The game will be titled Touhou 18.5: 100th Black Market. Both its storyline and gameplay system will take inspiration from ZUN's previous game, Touhou 18: Unconnected Marketeers.

The story of 100th Black Market will take place shortly after the events of Unconnected Marketeers. A black market that greatly increases the value of Ability Cards outside of the creator's control has appeared in Gensokyo. While the prequel had four playable characters, this game will solely focus on Marisa Kirisame as she investigates the black market while trying to collect the cards for herself.

100th Black Market will focus on the card collection aspect. In a similar fashion to Unconnected Marketeers, players will be able to purchase and equip Ability Cards that give various buffs to Marisa, which range from ive buffs to additional attacks. Players will aim to complete the card collection while trying out different combinations. A market stage in Touhou 18.5 will consist of several short waves generated randomly.

Touhou 18.5: 100th Black Market will be available for PCs. ZUN's Team Shanghai Alice will sell physical copies of the game at Comiket 100 in Tokyo Big Sight on August 14, 2022. The developer has also confirmed plans to bring the new game to digital platforms, including Steam.

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exA-Arcadia has revealed more details on its arcade game. A new press release for Touhou Perfect Sakura Fantastica provided a sneak peek at its gameplay system and appearing characters. The exA-Arcadia has still yet to publish any new images apart from the logo since the initial reveal in late September 2021.

However, the press release revealed that this game will be a port and remake of Touhou Makuka Sai - Fantastic Danmaku Festival Part II. The game that served as a basis for this arcade title is currently available on Steam.

exA-Arcadia also published a story synopsis that hints at the playable characters in Touhou Perfect Sakura Fantastica. Four characters will head out to investigate the unnatural snow and storms that are happening during the spring season. In addition to series staples Reimu and Marisa, the synopsis also mentions the Moriya Shrine maiden Sanae and the half-human and ghost Youmu.

The arcade title's gameplay system will have more than just normal shots and spell cards. Players will be able to activate a Barrier after filling up a gauge by collecting items and grazing enemy bullets.

Touhou Perfect Sakura Fantastica will appear on arcades. exA-Arcadia will set up a playable demo build of the arcade game at the 8th Hakurei Shrine Fall Reitaisai in Tokyo Big Sight on October 24, 2021.

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exA-Arcadia announced that it is currently working on Touhou Perfect Sakura Fantastica. This title will be the first arcade game based on Touhou Project to be officially approved and licensed by ZUN's Team Shanghai Alice.

The arcade game creator has so far only published the Touhou Perfect Sakura Fantastica logo. It has not revealed any gameplay footage or character design in the title. However, it will reveal more details about the title at the 8th Hakurei Shrine Fall Reitaisai. The Touhou Project-specific doujin expo will take place at Tokyo Big Sight on October 24, 2021.

Touhou Project originated as a series of shoot'em up games created by a single developer. Jun'ya "ZUN" Oota made the gameplay, music, and characters all by himself and released the games on PC Engine and Windows PCs. The franchise's popularity in Japan spawned many fan-made derivative games.

The latest mainline game from ZUN is the 16th title Touhou Kouryudou ~ Unconnected Marketeers. It is immediately available on PC. Team Shanghai Alice released the game digitally first on Steam.

exA-Arcadia is not the only company working on a Touhou game. In July 2021, Cave revealed that it is developing its own game based on the same franchise after receiving consent from the IP holder. While Cave has yet to announce any platforms, it plans to release the game in 2022.

Touhou Perfect Sakura Fantastica will be available in arcades. exA-Arcadia has not announced a release window for the arcade game.

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Touhou Kouryudou ~ Unconnected Marketeers, Team Shanghai Alice’s new Touhou Project game, is now on Steam. A May 2021 release window was promised, and it launched on May 3, 2021. However, physical copies won’t debut in Japan until May 13, 2021. [Thanks, Game Watch!]

While people anywhere can buy Touhou Kouryudou ~ Unconnected Marketeers, it is only available in Japanese. An English fan translation patch isn’t available. While the main menu is in English, so people can find their way to the game, extra mode, practice modes, replay, and music room, the magical cards with special abilities are only in Japanese. As such, it could prove difficult to determine what each one does unless someone is fluent or works off of a fan translation. A demo is available, so people can test it out.

Here’s a trailer for the 18th Touhou Project game. People can get an idea of how the shoot’em up plays. It begins with footage of Reimu Hakurei, then moves on to show Marisa Kirisame’s abilities. After that, Sakuya Izayoi and Sanae Kochiya footage appears.

Touhou Kouryudou ~ Unconnected Marketeers is immediately available on PCs via Steam for $14.99. There is Steam Cloud and a demo.

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Phoenixx Inc announced the Touhou Project visual novel Hifuu Fragment will come to Steam. The title is already available on other PC storefronts, such as Booth. Phoenixx created a Steam store page and ed a promotional video for the reveal. The game will release on Steam in 2021. [Thanks, Gematsu!]

Developed by Shikaku Games, Hifuu Fragment is a visual novel based on the music CD series created by Shanghai Alice. Phoenixx described the title as a fan game or derivative work that feels like a puzzle or escape room game. This title takes place before the first Hifuu Club game, Rendai no Yakou ~ Ghostly Field Club. As for gameplay, the main characters of the Touhou Project visual novel will obtain memories called "fragments" from their conversations with each other. The story will then branch off from there. Phoenixx warned fans that, unlike other games in the visual novel genre, the player cannot aimlessly read the story and select all the dialogue options freely.

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The Touhou brand is going strong with releases lately. The 2D tag-team fighting game Touhou Hyouibana ~ Antinomy of Common Flowers will launch worldwide on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. Additionally, ZUN announced that the 18th mainline game Rainbow Dragon Cave ~ Unconnected Marketeers will release in May 2021.

Hifuu Fragment will launch on Steam in 2021. The game is also available on Booth, which s PayPal as a payment method.

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Touhou Hyouibana ~ Antinomy of Common Flowers, the indie fighter involving all sorts of heroines from the Touhou Project series, won’t only appear in Japan. Phoenixx will publish it in other regions. This means it will appear worldwide on April 22, 2021. It will be more expensive than the PC version and cost $34.99/€29.99.

As is common in Touhou Project games, the cause of Touhou Hyouibana’s events is a new incident. Called Perfect Possession, players who go through the story mode can figure out what’s going on and unlock more content. There are also Training and Versus modes, with the option to play against other people locally or online.

Here’s a trailer looking at Touhou Hyouibana. While it is a spin-off from Twilight Frontier and Team Shanghai Alice, it is considered the 15.5th Touhou Project game. As such, the music should sound familiar as Zun was involved. The Perfect Possession mechanic helps provide an excuse for a tag team mechanic where you pick two of the 19 available characters and swap between them to fight. (Multiple heroines are introduced in the second half of the trailer.)

Touhou Hyouibana ~ Antinomy of Common Flowers will come to the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 worldwide on April 22, 2021. It is immediately available everywhere on PCs.

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