Touhou: New World
Skip · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 38, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 7.2h 18.4h to 100%
- Value
- $2.78/hr
- Reviews
- 78% of 298 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Delve back into the world of Touhou in this bullet hell action-RPG adventure! The boundary between Gensokyo and the outside world has been breached, and it falls to Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame to discover why. Level up skills, forge new equipment, and explore Gensokyo to uncover the truth!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750Ti, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 23 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 35 percent on value. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 66 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Phoenotopia: Awakening ($19.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Atlas Fallen: Reign Of Sand ($9.99, scores 35).
More about Touhou: New World
Finishing takes 7.2 hours; clearing it takes 18, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
At 7.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
78% start to 16% 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
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Sep 27, 06:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Touhou: New World is an action RPG developed by Ankake Spa and published by XSEED Games alongside Marvelous USA, Inc. Inspired by the long-running Touhou Project universe, the game presents a fresh adventure that combines high-speed real-time combat with role-playing progression while staying true to the colorful charm and supernatural atmosphere that fans have come to expect. Instead of simply adapting existing...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I had fun with this one. I played this right off the back of finishing Scarlet Curiosity (it's a direct sequel), so my expectations were pretty high. And for the most part, I was pleased with how this game felt. This was also my first experience with Sumireko! I enjoyed her character a lot. The story is simple. Sumireko Usami, a human from the outside world, finds a way to enter Gensokyo using an artifact called the...
I played this game back in 2023 on the switch and am sad to see that this game is still as janky in every aspect. Firstly while I do like and can compliment the art style of the sprites and the ost, the controls/battle mechanics are really annoying. Not being able to reconfigure controller settings in particular got me messed up for the longest time because why is X the regular attack binding. That, and the huge...
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Cite this score
Touhou: New World scores 38/100 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/2150660/touhou-new-worldReviews 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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.