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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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Japan's indie developers have banded together to announce Indie Live Expo 2020, an indie game showcase set to be broadcast on June 6 that they're hoping will reach at least 1 million viewers across Japan, China, and the West. Indie Live Expo 2020 will be streamed across Youtube Live, Periscope, Twitch, and Bilibili, and is hosted by Ryu's Office and sponsored by Gensokyo Night Festival developer Why so serious, Inc.

Although the event is being hosted by Japanese indie developers, they aim to show off not only Japanese indie games, but indie games from across the world. The event will be hosted in Japanese, Chinese, and English, and apart from showcases, several prominent indie developers and indie scene ers will also be sharing a message with the viewers, including ZUN (Touhou series), Toby Fox (UNDERTALE, DELTARUNE), SWERY (CEO of White Owls), and Etrian Odyssey creator Kazuya Nino, who is currently heading Type-Moon Studio BB.

Finally, a minigame development contest is set to be held, with the topic being Evangelion, due to the latest movie being set to release this year. More info on the contest will be announced in the future.

Indie Live Expo 2020 will be streamed on June 6, 2020 from 8pm to 11pm JST (subject to change). Bitsummit is also transitioning to an online event this year with BitSummit Gaiden.

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