Touhou Monster TD ~ 幻想乡妖怪塔防
Worth it · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $18.99.
- Length
- 12.1h
- Value
- $1.57/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 65% ($6.64)
- Last discount ended
- 31 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 512MB Graphic Card, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Easy to learn but hard to master, Touhou Monster TD is a unique Tower defense Game. Control your character, level up and unlock tower skills and character talents, use your wisdom to defeat incoming enemies. Travel the Gensokyo, find out why the “Incident” happened this time.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $6.64, set in December 2022. 37 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 65 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 22 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Last Spell ($24.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Overdungeon ($14.99, scores 51).
3 of the 386 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 108 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
95% start to 5% 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
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 21:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
As a self-proclaimed avid TD fan, this is easily one of the best TD game i ever played on steam. Not only can i move/reposition the tower's placement, the character's skill is also useful even until the final wave. The DLC overall is fun, but some really replaces the base character's role with exact skillset while (obviously) better. +1 point for being a touhou-inspired game. i give my personal rating of 9 out of 10
Hit with some misses: The translation from Chinese to English had a decent amount of typos, and some maps still have the mob names in Chinese (when the same mobs are in English on other maps). There barely was any story and it made very little sense. Maybe that has something to do with the translation that at times made equally little sense. Somewhat poorly optimized, as in, not at all. I have Geforce 4080 and other...
This game is reminiscent of Kingdom Rush with how many of the towers play, since I can likely name a tower that is similar to at least 80% of the cast, but it does take the unique approach of where instead of cross pathing, one decides the level where the abilities gained is worth stopping at. Along side that, the actual gameplay is active, as you are able to move towers around and have attack as the player, which...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Touhou Monster TD ~ 幻想乡妖怪塔防 scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1671350/touhou-monster-tdReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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