Touhou Kikamu ~ Elegant Impermanence of Sakura
Fair · Short indie · 2020
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $13.99. A BANGER at $3.87, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Apr 2020 (lowest $6.99, Sep 2025).
- Length
- 1.5h
- Value
- $9.33/hr
- Reviews
- 97% of 479 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.87 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
About the game
Touhou Kikamu ~ Elegant Impermanence of Sakura is a fangame of Touhou Project series, it manifests as a traditional STG like most official Touhou Project games.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 9 compatible graphics card, 799 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 20 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 11 weeks apart. $3.87 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Twilight Survivors ($2.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Overture ($4.99, scores 40).
More about Touhou Kikamu ~ Elegant Impermanence of Sakura
1 of the 311 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 96 percent of the 127 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
99% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Wonderful bullet hell shoot 'em up: art direction, presentation, audio design, soundtrack, character illustrations, everything top notch and well beyond the usual doujin standards. The gameplay is very polished and fresh with added depth, thanks to the unique dyeing system, which allows players to go for max scoring or survival assists.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Touhou Kikamu ~ Elegant Impermanence of Sakura scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1252320/touhou-kikamu-elegant-impermanence-of-sakuraReviews 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 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.