Touhou Blooming Soul is now available in Early Access on Steam!
It's finally here.
Due some parts of the game still being untranslated, the game does not support any languages aside from Chinese at the time of writing. That said, the majority of the game has already been translated, and we are already working to have the rest of the content translated. If everything goes well, this should only take 1-2 months.
The last time we released a game was nearly 4 years ago, that being Touhou Fairy Knockout. We've released a new game virtually every year ever since we started making games back in 2018. With 4 years having passed, a certain feeling of roughness has crept back in, as if this were our first game. If there's anything you find lacking within the game, we'd like to ask you to please bear with us.
We started developing Touhou Blooming Soul back in August of 2021, and it took us this long to finally get to a state ready for Early Access. As one of the mainstream genres, there are a lot of action games out there, but we still vastly, vastly underestimated how hard it would be to develop such a game.
Between all the illustrations, visual effects, enemy attacks, and player skills, not to mention all the work required to polish the core gameplay loop and ensure a smooth player experience, etc... this game has been one colossal undertaking. There were many occasions where we could only despair at the insurmountable task ahead of us... and we even had to abandon all our progress two years ago and start again from scratch. It was only after all that that we could put out this game that is Touhou Blooming Soul.
Frankly, it's a miracle that this game even exists, but it's a game we poured our heart and soul into, and it's a game we've always dreamed of making despite having no prior experience making such games.
What you can expect from this game:
The main character is Hata no Kokoro! An adorable girl filled with emotions, yet who can only make a poker face, as if her passions have been encased in a mountain of ice. Join her on an emotional journey where she peers into the joys, angers, sorrows and happiness the world has to offer.
Dead Cells-esque Roguelite gameplay.
The Early Access version of the game contains two chapters, 9 unique bosses, 30 monsters, 120 items, 80 skills, more than 50 pixel art CGs, 3 alternate gamemodes, and one additional playable character (Mokou).
The main story takes about 1 hour to complete, and completing all the content currently in the game will take about 10 hours. However, the charm of roguelikes is that they can be played over and over again as you explore builds and refine your strategy, so you can still get many more hours out of the game. We also have plans to update the game with even more content in the future.
Plans Beyond Early Access
First and foremost is, of course, to follow up on player feedback. We'll be collecting and sorting through feedback from our community and various socials, fixing bugs and improving anything that needs to be improved.
After that, we'll begin developing the full version of the game, which we plan to release in two major updates. They will include, respectively:
Phase One
- Chapter three content, including 4 bosses and their respective themes/CGs.
- Chapter three world and monsters.
- More items.
- More skills.
- More playable characters.
Phase Two
- Last chapter content, including 2 bosses and their respective themes/CGs.
- More items.
- More ways to play the game.
- More playable characters.
We hope to finish everything in around half a year. That is to say, we want to give everyone a finished Touhou Blooming Soul before the end of 2026.
Naturally, there'll also be many bug fixes and minor content patches along way. We plan to release these updates on a weekly or bi-weekly (every two weeks) basis.
Thank you for your continued support! Following Mystia's Izakaya, through mutual constructive feedback, we can create another amazing Touhou fangame together!
