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Touhou Defense Tale ~ AI Test in Touhou ~

Touhou Defense Tale ~ AI Test in Touhou ~

A 2D Touhou fan game combining tower defense, tower merging, RTS-style control, and chaotic bullet-filled battles. Merge Touhou characters, build your defense, and compete for the fastest clear time on the leaderboard.

Released Jun 27, 2026 Developer 식신공방 Platforms Windows StrategyTower DefenseSingleplayerPvETop-Down
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-09-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.

94.6%positive74 reviews
Recommended · 2 found this helpful

“Please add more characters it's so much fun.”

— a player, Steam review · 120 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Touhou Defense Tale ~ AI Test in Touhou ~ is a free-to-play strategy game that reshapes familiar Touhou characters and themes into a combination of tower defense, real-time unit management, character merging, and projectile-heavy combat. Developed and published by 식신공방, it takes…”

— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs played
Not recommended · 8 found this helpful

“look me in the eyes and tell me this looks like it's a good game except for that ai momjii art WOW WEE she was hot zamn! zamnalicious! MORE LIKE MOMMYJII”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

24achievements
34.6%median completion
3.4%rarest: Resident of Gensokyo
77.6% of players 67.1% of players 58.5% of players 55.7% of players 55.0% of players 53.2% of players 52.4% of players 48.6% of players 47.7% of players 45.6% of players 42.8% of players 42.5% of players 34.6% of players 30.9% of players 22.3% of players 20.0% of players 14.7% of players 9.8% of players 9.2% of players 7.1% of players 5.0% of players 3.9% of players 3.5% of players 3.4% of players 77.6% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
77.6%First Clear — Cleared the game for the first time.
67.1%I Love Money — Obtained gold through an Arcana effect.
58.5%Shrine Maiden of Paradise — Completed EX Reimu.
Rarest badges of honor
3.4%Resident of Gensokyo — Cleared the game 100 times in total.
3.5%Goddess of Hell — Cleared the game 75 times in total.
3.9%Supreme Judge of Paradise — Cleared the game 50 times in total.

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jul 28, 2026
Minor Update & A Final Message

Hello, this is Shikishin Studio . This update is a small patch focused on bug fixes and balance adjustments. Changes Balance EX Marisa has been buffed. Attack Speed: 2.5 → 3 Increased activation chanc

Jul 18, 2026
Extra First Clear & Bug Fix

Hello, this is Shikigami Workshop. Today, at around 13:30 , the first-ever clear of Extra difficulty has been achieved! The first player to clear Extra difficulty is: ID: Hong100 with a clear time of

Jul 17, 2026
[Update] EXTRA Difficulty and 8 New Characters

Hello, this is Shikigami Workshop. First of all, we sincerely apologize for the delay and for keeping everyone waiting longer than expected. This update introduces EXTRA , a new difficulty level above

Jul 12, 2026
[Update Delay Notice]

Hello, this is the developer of Touhou Defense ~ Ai Test in Touhou ~ . First of all, I sincerely apologize to everyone who has been waiting for this update. After completing development and conducting

Jul 08, 2026
[Emergency Update Notice]

Hello, this is the developer of Touhou Defense Tale ~ AI Test in Touhou ~ . We recently identified abnormal leaderboard records that could not be verified as legitimate gameplay on the Lunatic Time At

Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.

GenresCasual, Indie, Strategy, Free To Play
Player tagsStrategy · Tower Defense · Singleplayer · PvE · Top-Down · 2D · Bullet Hell · Fantasy · Magic · Anime · Cute · Colorful (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Custom Volume Controls · Adjustable Difficulty · Mouse Only Option · #category_playable_at_your_own_pace · Playable without Timed Input · Steam Leaderboards
LanguagesEnglish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean
Achievements24
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS: Windows 10 (64-bit) Processor: Intel Core i5 or equivalent Memory: 8 GB RAM GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 11 compatible GPU Storage: 1 GB available space GB available space