Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity
Worth it · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 5h
- Value
- $3.00/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Geforce GTS 450, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The world of Touhou comes alive in this beautiful action RPG (featuring “bullet hell” elements, of course!). Infamous vampire Remilia Scarlet and her dutiful maid, Sakuya, set off to chase rumors of a massive monster, all while sending baddies flying with fluid action and signature skills!
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
It has never been cheaper than $4.49. That was February 2024. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 53 in the 8 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Archvale ($14.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Phoenotopia: Awakening ($19.99, scores 64).
65 from critics against 92 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 353 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 211 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
64% start to 8% 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
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 11:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Probably one of my favorite Touhou fangames. Definitely worth the play if you can't get enough Scarlet Devil content. I found myself wanting to play more, even after I finished the game & got all the achievements. The story is simple. Remilia Scarlet, the charismatic vampire mistress of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, finds her home has been destroyed by a mystery monster while she was out, and now she must go on a quest...
I'm quite disappointed with Marvelous (No More Heroes) and XSEED (Ys). This game feels really mediocre, to the point that it looks like it was created by a clumsy AI (which is not btw, this game was released before that era). It clearly tries to emulate the classic gameplay of older Ys series entries like Ys Origin and Ys: The Oath in Felghana, but falls short by missing the small details that made those games so...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity scores 69/100 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/845880/touhou-scarlet-curiosityReviews 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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