Touhou : Shooting Star | 東方流星譚

Released Jun 2020

As a wizard "Marisa Kirisame", Fly in the Gensokyo! This is fun game of "Touhou Project"! See beautiful danmaku of touhou characters. Develop your weapon, armor, spell card to get strong. Let's play "Danmaku"!

89% positive · 146 reviews

Done

All announced content has been released

High confidence

Done

All announced content has been released

High confidence

Where to get it

Free on Steam

Steam Free

Evaluation

Touhou: Shooting Star launched on June 15, 2020 as a paid game developed by a four-person student team and received active post-launch support. Three major content updates shipped: ver1.3 on July 28, 2020 (new stage, boss, and equipment), ver2.0 on December 13, 2020 (major graphics overhaul and system changes), and ver3.0 on August 15, 2021 (two new enemies, new base, new quests and stages, and full UI redesign). The last known bug-fix patch was posted on July 18, 2022. On March 3, 2023, the developer posted a formal statement explaining that, due to personal circumstances affecting the development team, the game was being made permanently free of charge. The statement explicitly noted "there will be no change in the game content" and expressed hope that players would continue to enjoy the game as-is. This communication effectively marks the end of active development — the team acknowledged personal reasons preventing further work and transitioned the game to a free product rather than continuing to develop it. No DLC has ever been listed on the store, no future content has been announced, and no developer communications have appeared since March 3, 2023. The game is a complete, fully released product.

Evidence

Developer announced the game is being made permanently free due to personal circumstances affecting the four-person student team. Explicitly stated there will be no change in game content, signaling the end of development.

news post · Mar 3, 2023 source development ending

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Ver3.0 shipped with two new enemies (Sanae Kotiya and Utsuho Reiuji), a new base, new quests and story content, new equipment, and new stages — the last major content update.

news post · Aug 15, 2021 source content shipped

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Media

Details

Developer

星屑ラボラトリー

Publisher

T-Works

Achievements

Platform

Windows

Controller

full support

Steam Deck

Playable

Players

Single-player

Indie Faith Bullet Hell Shoot 'Em Up RPG Anime

About this game

!!!!About English Translation!!!!
As for English, the system messages have been translated.
For conversational text, machine translation is used, so there are some unnatural points in the translation. Also, parts of the conversation may appear in a different language. Please be aware of this.

About Touhou:Shooting Star -Touhou Ryuseitan

As a wizard "Marisa Kirisame", Fly in the Gensokyo!
This is fun game of "Touhou Project"!
Let's play "Danmaku"!

３D Danmaku Battle

Fly and fight in the Gensokyo.
3-directyional bullets is reaching to you.
Avoid bullets and shot down enemys!

Spell Card

Boss enemys use "Spell Card".
Defeat their beautiful danmaku and Get ther Spell Card!
Analyze and avoid characteristical bullet patten.

Develop your weapon

Get materials from defeated enemys and develop more strong weapon, armor, and spell card.
Make your own equipments set.
Each weapon has parameters and bullet.
Each Armor has parameters and skills and appearance.

Quest

This game includes more 30 quests!
Enemy boss character is more than 10 !
And every quest has sub targets.
Let's try "No damage clear","Time attack","Get all spell cards" and so on.

Talk in Gensokyo

There are many characters of "Touhou Project" in the village and can talk to them.
Let's talk as Marisa!
There is original illust of characters of Touhou Project.