Touhou Mechanical Scrollery | 幻想討幻経

Touhou Mechanical Scrollery | 幻想討幻経

Skip · Shooter · 2020

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 1, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
3.6h
Value
$5.55/hr
Reviews
54% of 269 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Value$5.55/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews54% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 56% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 241 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

A 3D bullet hell mid-air hunting action game based on the Touhou Project. Fly freely through the air and face down humongous foes with both melee action and 3D bullet patterns (Danmaku)!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 970M, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 44 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 72 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 91 percent. On the same math The Killing Antidote ($29.99, scores 53) and Galaxy on Fire 2™ Full HD ($7.99, scores 36) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

More about Touhou Mechanical Scrollery | 幻想討幻経

Of the 241 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 186 reviews written there were positive, against 54 percent overall, and those are 77 percent of everything written about it.

What players say

Here's how you play this game. 1- pick Marisa. 2- equip any book that has as its spell card "Love Sign - Master Spark" 3- Use focus mode (Y on xbox controller) to fire a laser that charges your spell card. 4- when spell card gauge is full, try to get a little bit of shot guage and then activate spell card. 5- go back into focus mode. Your laser is now BIG LASER. This game is good, but rough around the edges. The...
MyraRecommendedafter 3.6hSep 2023Read on Steam
2 more reviews
I would consider the gameplay as interesting, its fun to play, but the game suffers from technical side of aspect, and controls would really need refining works. Every melee attack are really slow, and you cant move your character freely during melee attack. Combining these 2 factor, and you'll get a melee attack combo that completely falls upon enemy's mercy to NOT move away from you to land. But enemy are...
ReceedRecommendedafter 5.9hDec 2021Read on Steam
mouse & keyboard now usable, that's enough for me to enjoy this game and performance issue was a main reason why this game unplayable, but it's not a problem anymore I got around 12-15 fps before it's fixed, now got 55-60 fps looking forward for more improvements & content updates
digital youkaiRecommendedafter 2.6hMay 2020Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

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Touhou Mechanical Scrollery | 幻想討幻経 scores 1/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1222050/touhou-mechanical-scrollery
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

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Details

Developer巫女さん作法
PublisherPhoenixx Inc.
GenreShooter
Released2020
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate