Choose style: | 8ch | | silver | | grass | | metal | --- Static (HTML only) version ---Touhou Project
| General Information | ||||||
| Genre | Original developer | Originally released | Current developer | Remade in | MP amount of players | Characterization |
| Shmup | ZUN | 1997 | ZUN | 2002(Windows Era) | 2 | Original |
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| Purchase | Copy purchase | Subscription | Free to play | Almost all fans outside of Japan download their games because they're hard to get otherwise. The disks have to be imported. The newest game, HSFS, has a Steam release. |
| Cut Content | Graphic | Character | Gameplay | Expansions | Other | ZUN often mentions cutting content from games to meet deadlines. There's a character "Rin Satsuki" that was cut from EoSD that sometimes appears in fan works. There's a graphic for the "Phantasmagoria" stage in IN. |
| Censorship | Language | Violence | Nudity | Political | The game are safe. |
| DRM | uPlay | Steam | Denuvo | Origin | Other | DRM-Free | No DRM. |
| In-game purchases | Cosmetics | Boosters | Items | Characters | Maps | Other | Once you have the game, you have 100% of it. |
| Paid DLC | Cosmetics | Boosters | Soundtrack | Items | Characters | Maps | Expansions | |
| Free DLC | Cosmetics | Boosters | Soundtrack | Items | Characters | Maps | Expansions | |
| Modding support | Banned | None | Limited | Full | Game data is stored in compressed files. Tools like "Touhou Toolkit" can be used to modify them. No explicit modding support. |
| False advertising | No | Yes | |
| Demo availability | No | Yes | Every game has a free pre-release trial version. |
| Bugs at launch | None | Insubstantial | Moderate | Heavy | Most games come out broken on release but are fixed with patches soon after. ZUN never touches games past just after their release which leaves some nasty bugs. Some of them have been fixed by the fans. |
| Multiplayer | Local | Official server | P2P | LAN | User servers | Unofficial | Only PoFV has local multiplayer. It can be played online with an addon called Adonis. |
| Moderation (online) | None | Insubstantial | Moderate | Heavy | |
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| Category | Included in Touhou | Included in fanmade mods | Sources / Comments | ||||||||||||||||
| vpatch | No | Yes | Fixes a lot of bugs in the game and provides more control over how the game is displayed. |
| adonis | No | Yes | Used to achieve online multiplayer in PoFV. |
Gamer's Opinion
The whole series was done in one post because the games are similar and usually played as a whole. Good game if you're looking for something that's challenging and singleplayer. Tons of fan works.