Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia
BANGER · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 29.4h
- Value
- $0.34/hr
- Reviews
- 96% 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
- 50% ($4.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 92% ($0.79)
- Last discount ended
- 9 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, Shader Model 3.0 compatible, 123 MB of storage. Windows only.
Explore Gensokyo from an outsider's perspective in this old-school Touhou DRPG!
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 $0.79, set in December 2024. 16 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 30 percent off, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, Wizardry 8 ($9.99, scores 78) and Hellslave ($19.99, scores 55) both come in lower.
The math says it holds its tier up to $33.89, and you are being asked for $9.99.
This site sampled 344 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 172 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
70% 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
What players say
for my first dungeon crawler, i got immediatly hooked by the soundtrack and overall gameplay. now, im not really big on RPG's they usually bore me after a certain amount of time or just have very off turning mechanics. this game has kind of perfected the balance between very easy and actual strategy.
I've never played SMT, but I know Touhou, and I think people unfamiliar with either of the series will have no problem enjoying this dungeon crawler. The story isn't very deep, but the gameplay is balanced, graphics are pleasant pixel art, and as expected of a Touhou fangame, it's got a quality soundtrack. Definitely worth playing.
I have no idea what this Touhou thing is, I just know it's not edible and has something to do with the Bullet Hell negotiations. The main point is that this is one of the best pre-Nocturne-style SMT games I've ever played! I'm grateful to Marsh for making a video about this game. Thankfully, I started playing it late on a Saturday... if it had been Sunday, I would've had to stay up all night! It wasn't my fault...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2248430/touhou-artificial-dream-in-arcadiaReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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