Bullet hell shoot 'em up game series and doujin media franchise created by ZUN.
- Official Resources and Getting Started
- Game Tools
- Gameplay, Replays, and Scoring
- Reverse Engineering and Preservation
- Game Development
- Fighting Games
- Music and Data
- Open-source Fangames
- Touhou in Other Games
- Events and Conventions
- Knowledge and Community
Official guidance and trusted sources for official and authorized news.
- Touhou Project Fan Creator Guidelines - The official multilingual guidelines for fan works, distribution, monetization, crowdfunding, and other derivative activities.
- Touhou Yomoyama News - A committee-run hub for official and authorized Touhou Project news, with ZUN serving as honorary chair.
- 公認作品 - The official catalog of authorized Touhou games, books, music, merchandise, and other products, filterable by release date, category, and company.
Essential starting points for discovering, obtaining, and playing Touhou games.
- Getting Started - A newcomer-oriented introduction to the official games and the wider series.
- Purchasing Guide - Where and how to legally purchase official Touhou games and music.
- Touhou Patch Center - Multilingual community patches and installation instructions for official games.
Tools for organizing, launching, and running Touhou games across platforms.
- 9Launcher - A Windows and Linux launcher with support for official Touhou games, thcrap, DOSBox-X, Proton, and Wine.
- Tanuki Launcher - A cross-platform Touhou game launcher and Wine helper with score-file backups, screen and audio recording, and screenshot tools for the Windows games from Touhou 6 onward.
- thcrap Steam Proton Wrapper - Launches official Steam releases with thcrap patches through Proton on GNU/Linux.
- thcrap-menu - A controller-friendly menu for choosing per-game thcrap configurations from a single Windows or Steam Deck/Proton shortcut.
- thd3d8mitigation - A Direct3D 8 compatibility layer that mitigates fullscreen speedup and related presentation problems in older Touhou games, especially Embodiment of Scarlet Devil on Windows 10 and 11.
- Touhou Linux Guide - A practical guide to running Windows-era and PC-98 Touhou games on Linux with Wine, Lutris, DOSBox-X, and Neko Project II Kai.
- Touhou Steam Executable Patches - Converts supported Steam executables to their original disc form for compatibility with tools such as vpatch.
- Universal THCRAP Launcher - A universal game launcher for thcrap configurations.
Tools for configuring controls and connecting games to other applications.
- thkmc - Adds custom key mappings to supported Touhou STGs by patching their executables.
- ThMouseX - Enables mouse control for official Touhou shooting games, with preconfigured support for Touhou 6 through Touhou 20.
- TouhouKeymap - A thcrap plugin that adds per-game configurable keyboard controls to supported official Touhou games.
- TouhouRPC - Adds Discord Rich Presence support to Touhou games.
Tools that improve or replace online play in official Touhou games.
- Ju.N.Owen - An alternative netplay layer for Touhou 19 v1.10c with adjustable delay, shared and reserved rooms, direct P2P connections, and spectating.
- ThLink - A self-hostable relay for UDP-based Touhou netplay, with QUIC or TCP transport, decentralized server discovery, and spectator support for Hisoutensoku and Antinomy of Common Flowers.
Core tools for patching game data, translating games, and building mods.
- Ladybug Randomizer - A Touhou Luna Nights randomizer with logic-aware item placement, enemy and music shuffling, reverse mode, and a built-in item tracker.
- MetaMystia - A cooperative multiplayer mod for Touhou Mystia's Izakaya that synchronizes restaurant play between friends and includes ResourceEx support for custom resources.
- neopatch - An open-source patch that reduces end-to-end latency and adds optimizations and game-specific fixes across sixteen official Touhou shooting games.
- thcrap - The community patching, translation, and modding framework for Touhou games.
- thtk - A command-line toolkit for extracting, creating, compiling, and decompiling Touhou game data.
- Touhou 10 APWorld - Adds Mountain of Faith to the Archipelago multi-game randomizer, with configurable Practice or Normal progression, shot types, resources, difficulty, Extra Stage goals, traps, and Ring Link support.
- Touhou 6 APWorld - Adds Embodiment of Scarlet Devil to the Archipelago multi-game randomizer, with configurable stage, resource, difficulty, and Extra Stage progression.
- Touhou 7 APWorld - Adds Perfect Cherry Blossom to the Archipelago multi-game randomizer, with configurable stage, resource, difficulty, Extra Stage, and Phantasm Stage progression.
- Touhou 8 APWorld - Adds Imperishable Night to the Archipelago multi-game randomizer, with configurable team, stage, time, Spell Practice, and Extra Stage progression.
- truth - A multipass compiler and decompiler suite for binary script formats used by Touhou shooting games.
Guides and community resources for learning, scoring, survival, and competitive play.
- Phantasmagoria of Flower View Competitive Portal - A multilingual competitive PoFV hub with a tier list, netplay setup and troubleshooting, tournament rules, and links to community resources.
- The Danmaku Gameplay Wiki - A gameplay-focused wiki covering mechanics, strategy, scoring, and competitive play for official Touhou shooting games.
- 東方Project攻略 Wiki - A Japanese strategy wiki with stage routes, mechanics, scoring notes, replay references, and bug documentation across the official shooting games.
Tools for practice, replay inspection, and live gameplay analysis.
- ParaKit - Extracts frame-by-frame gameplay state from supported Touhou shooters for built-in and custom Python analysis, including entity plots, bullet-count graphs, and heatmaps.
- thhyl - A desktop viewer for metadata stored in Touhou STG replay (
.rpy) files. - thprac - A comprehensive practice tool for official Touhou shooting games.
- threp - Parses Touhou replay metadata and recorded input sequences.
- ThScoreFileConverter - Generates text or HTML summaries from score files and PNG images from best-shot data for many official Touhou games.
- Touhou 12.8 Replay Fixer - Repairs Great Fairy Wars replays affected by the wrong-route glitch and can decode detailed replay metadata and recorded input streams.
Active scoreboards and preserved collections of historical Touhou replays.
- Gensokyo Replay Archive - Preserves replays from the defunct replays.gensokyo.org with searchable metadata.
- Royalflare Archive - Preserves Royalflare's historical replay and ranking data with full search.
- Silent Selene - An active replay host and scoreboard covering the PC-98 and Windows shooting games.
- Touhou World Records - Tracks score world records across official Touhou shooting games, with replay downloads where available.
Source reconstruction and technical research that preserve how the games work.
- ReC98 - Reconstructs readable, binary-equivalent source code for the five PC-98 Touhou games.
- Touhou 10.5 Source Reconstruction - A source reconstruction of Scarlet Weather Rhapsody 1.06a using reproducible binary comparison, machine-readable function tracking, and documented IDA and Ghidra workflows.
- Touhou 6 Decompilation - A decompilation of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil version 1.02h.
- Touhou 7 Decompilation - A fully implemented, nearly byte-accurate decompilation of Perfect Cherry Blossom version 1.00b, with cross-platform porting branches.
- Touhou 8 Agent-First Source Reconstruction - An agent-first continuation of the GensokyoClub decompilation, with reproducible binary matching and documented reverse-engineering workflows.
- Touhou 8 Decompilation - A decompilation of Imperishable Night version 1.00d.
Engines and authoring tools for building Touhou-style games and scripts.
- LuaSTG Editor Sharp X - A graphical code generator for authoring LuaSTG games across multiple engine variants.
- LuaSTG Sub - A maintained modern LuaSTG engine that moves rendering and audio to newer Windows APIs.
- Sparen's Danmakufu Application Monitoring System - A profiler for Touhou Danmakufu ph3 scripts that records gameplay and performance metrics and produces HTML and CSV reports for individual or repeated runs.
- Sparen's Danmakufu ph3 Tutorials - A peer-reviewed, step-by-step curriculum for learning Danmakufu ph3 scripting, with references and documentation backups.
- Sparen's Danmakufu Standard Library - A collection of reusable Touhou Danmakufu ph3 libraries for data structures, bitwise and math helpers, and text formatting, with unit and integration tests.
- Touhou Danmakufu ph3sx-2 - A performance-oriented Danmakufu ph3 fork with expanded scripting and archive features.
Launchers, mods, and netplay improvements for Touhou fighting games.
- giuroll - A maintained successor to the original Giuroll rollback netcode mod, with replay improvements for Touhou Hisoutensoku.
- Soku Launcher - A dedicated launcher for Touhou Hisoutensoku.
- SokuDirectXOptimizations - A Hisoutensoku mod that decouples rendering from game processing to reduce slowdown from dropped frames, with faster texture loading, DirectX 9Ex, and optional VSync.
- SokuMods - A collected, reproducible source tree for SWRSToys, SokuEngine, and their Hisoutensoku modules.
Tools, databases, and distribution resources for identifying, tagging, extracting, discovering, and playing Touhou music.
Tools for playing, extracting, encoding, and tagging music from legally obtained Touhou games and releases.
- foo_thbgm - A foobar2000 component that directly plays BGM from Touhou games and related fangames.
- Touhou Music Extractor - A command-line tool for extracting music files from Touhou games.
- Touhou Music Room - A maintained continuation of Nmlgc's Touhou music player, extractor, encoder, and mass-tagger, with Japanese and English metadata, ZUN CD tagging, and support through Touhou 20.
- TouHou Player - A cross-platform BGM player that reads music directly from Touhou game installations, supporting Touhou 6 through Touhou 19 and several spin-off shooters.
- Touhou Tagger - Fills Touhou Project CD track metadata using information from THBWiki.
Databases, authorized distribution services, radio, analysis resources, and tools for discovering Touhou music.
- Gensokyo Radio - A long-running 24/7 radio station for fan-made Touhou arrangements with searchable circle, artist, album, and song metadata, listening history, and podcasts.
- Random Touhou Music - A web app for discovering Touhou music by randomly selecting tracks available on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube Music, and LINE MUSIC.
- Touhou Song Sorter - An interactive sorter for ranking favorite Touhou songs.
- TouhouDB - A multilingual collaborative database of Touhou artists, albums, songs, PVs, tags, and release events, with streaming integrations and a public API.
- TouhouThemeDB - A MediaWiki extension that provides structured data for canonical Touhou music themes.
- ZUN氏作曲音楽データベースWiki - A community-edited Japanese music-analysis wiki for ZUN's compositions, cataloging BPM, meter, key, instrumentation, chord progressions, and appearances across games and music releases.
- 東方カラオケ検索 - A Japanese search tool for Touhou songs available on DAM and JOYSOUND, filterable by title, singer, circle, source work, and original theme.
- 東方同人音楽流通 - An authorized digital-distribution program and catalog for Touhou doujin music, handling rights clearance for participating circles.
- 東方編曲録 ～ Arrangement Chronicle - A Japanese database for tracing Touhou arrangements by original track, album, circle, release event, vocalist, arranger, and lyricist, with search and statistics.
Playable fan games whose source code is publicly available.
- Cirno's Perfect Snowglide - An ice-physics platformer in which Cirno snowboards through stages, built with Godot and playable on the web, Windows, and Linux.
- Genso Battle - A Terra Battle-inspired Touhou strategy fangame built with Godot, with a playable itch.io release and MIT-licensed code.
- Kutaka Run - A Cookie Run-inspired platformer where Kutaka runs, jumps, slides, and collects ingredients, with story stages, an Extra Stage, and browser and Windows builds.
- Minecraft VS Zombies 2 - A Unity tower-defense crossover combining Plants vs. Zombies mechanics, Minecraft elements, and a Touhou story set in Gensokyo, with Windows, Linux, and Android builds.
- Mizuchi Takeover HD - A least-cost-path puzzle about navigating Touhou character appearances to reach Reimu, with browser and Windows builds and local two-player play.
- Stages! - A Touhou matching-card game where players assemble stage-character sets from the same game, with browser play and up to four-player LAN multiplayer in the desktop build.
- Taisei - A polished, free, and open-source Touhou-style bullet hell game for desktop platforms and the web.
Substantial Touhou-themed mods and curated resources for Touhou content in other games.
- Esoterica Origins - A Fabric add-on for Minecraft Origins with dozens of Touhou-inspired origins, distinct character playstyles, custom Graze and Flawless effects, and documented powers.
- Gensokyo - A large tModLoader content mod for Terraria adding Touhou bosses, enemies, hundreds of items, mini-biomes, a custom subworld, music, and multiplayer support.
- Gensokyo Railway - A multilingual Bve Trainsim route set in Gensokyo with a completed 22-station loop line and local, rapid, and limited-express services.
- Touhou Little Maid - A Forge and NeoForge Minecraft mod that adds customizable Touhou-inspired maids, combat, farming, and other systems.
- Touhou osu! Index - An open, reproducible, automatically maintained catalog of Touhou music mapped in osu!, with provenance, confidence-based review, and JSON and CSV exports.
- Touhou Stellar Chronicles ~ Symphony of Phantasm - A large Stellaris content mod adding Touhou species, leaders, events, a Spiritual Power and Spell Card technology tree, custom economies, planets, megastructures, ships, and crises.
Recurring Touhou conventions, competitions, creator events, and calendars for finding community gatherings.
Long-running Touhou-only conventions and organizer hubs for recurring fan events.
- Hakurei Shrine Reitaisai - The organizer hub for the Touhou-only Reitaisai event series, covering its spring and autumn conventions as well as regional, Taiwan, and music events.
- Touhou Kouroumu - A long-running Touhou-only doujin convention in Osaka for fan books, music, goods, games, and other derivative works.
- Touhou Meikasai - A recurring Touhou-only convention in Nagoya with doujin sales, cosplay, and community activities.
- TouhouFest - A Touhou-focused fan convention in California with concerts, cosplay activities, gaming tournaments, panels, and community meetups.
- 大⑨州東方祭 - A long-running Touhou-only doujin convention series held across Kyushu by the Goudousai organizing committee.
- 東方螺茶会 - Studio YOU's organizer hub for recurring Touhou-only doujin events across regions of Japan, with schedules and participation information.
Recurring events centered on Touhou gameplay, fan creation, research, and criticism.
- Touhou Fan Game Jam - A recurring community game-jam series in which solo developers and teams create Touhou fangames around announced themes, including main, Pride, and other side jams.
- Touhou World Cup - The hub for an annual international Touhou shooting-game competition with rules, schedules, results, and multilingual live broadcasts.
- 幻想郷フォーラム - A recurring Touhou information and criticism event for fan research and analysis, with poster displays and oral presentations.
- 東方ニコ童祭 - An annual online Touhou fan-creation festival centered on Niconico, with derivative videos, illustrations, live broadcasts, and community programs.
Curated schedules for discovering upcoming Touhou events across regions and event types.
- THBWiki Event Schedule - An automatically generated schedule of Touhou events from THBWiki, grouped by region and available as an ICS calendar subscription.
- 東方イベントカレンダー - Touhou Garakuta Magazine's recurring event-calendar series, covering upcoming doujin conventions, music events, and related gatherings with a shared Google Calendar.
Curated references, publications, community tools, and multilingual knowledge bases.
- Fumo Guides - Community-maintained guides and structured information about Touhou Fumo plushes.
- Maribel Hearn's Touhou Portal - A privacy-friendly collection of game tools, replay and scoring resources, and community references.
- THBWiki - A Chinese-language Touhou encyclopedia and community database with extensive music, event, and publication coverage.
- THWiki Popularity Poll Results - An English translation archive of the Japanese Touhou Project Popularity Poll with sortable character, music, and work results, questionnaires, comments, and historical comparisons where available.
- Touhou Calendar - Documents recurring Touhou fan-observance days with hashtag references and explanations for wordplay, release dates, and historical associations.
- Touhou Community Jargon - A multilingual glossary of Touhou gameplay, scoring, survival, and shoot-'em-up terms and acronyms.
- Touhou Garakuta Magazine - A multilingual Touhou and doujin-culture publication featuring current news, interviews, reports, criticism, and creator-focused coverage.
- Touhou Mystia's Izakaya Assistant - A Chinese-language companion for Touhou Mystia's Izakaya with guest references, meal planning, and searchable data for recipes, drinks, ingredients, equipment, and other collectibles.
- Touhou Project Character Sorter - A browser-based preference sorter for Touhou characters with source filters, progress saving, shareable results, and image or text exports.
- Touhou Wiki - A multilingual community encyclopedia covering official works, characters, gameplay, music, and fan culture.
- 中文东方人气投票 - A Chinese-language Touhou popularity-poll archive with recurring character, music, work, and game polls, questionnaires, and detailed published results.
- 東方Project人気投票 - A long-running Japanese community poll for Touhou characters, music, and works, with browsable historical rankings, vote totals, and voter comments.
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