Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia

Explore Gensokyo from an outsider's perspective in this old-school Touhou DRPG!

Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia is a dungeon crawler, turn-based combat and first-person game developed by Bar Holographic Otaku and published by Bar Holographic Otaku and 东游鉴.
Released on September 22nd 2023 is available only on Windows in 3 languages: English, Japanese and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 841 reviews of which 822 were positive and 19 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.2 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 0.78€ on Steam and has a 92% discount.

The Steam community has classified Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia into these genres:

Dungeon Crawler Turn-Based Combat First-Person Adventure Female Protagonist RPG JRPG Party-Based RPG Bullet Hell Exploration Pixel Graphics 2D Faith 1990's Fantasy Old School Indie Singleplayer Retro Anime

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows Vista, 7, 8, 10
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory: 256 MB RAM
Graphics: Shader Model 3.0 compatible
Storage: 124 MB available space

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

March 2024

It's kind of funny what a melting pot this game is. SMT fans who know nothing about Touhou playing this, Touhou fans who know nothing about SMT trying the genre out. However, all of it to comes out to almost unanimous praise from both sides. I am from the latter, and as someone who is a 1CC fiend for Touhou, I appreciate the series a lot. I also appreciate Touhou fan games a lot, with Luna Nights being the best Metroidvania I've ever experienced. I was well aware of Potemki11's work through fanart and the extremely solid Udongein X. But this project at first seemed like it wasn't for me. I've always been intimidated by the brutal reputation of SMT games, but I was willing to try it out in a Touhou-adorned game. It was a bit rough at first, mainly due to my freshness with the gameplay, but this game turned out to be one of my favorite gaming experiences of all time. Nothing about the charm of Gensokyo is lost in translation with this game; it is captured perfectly. There isn't a ton of dialogue in this game, and writing lines for all of the sleepers is an impossible task, but every character in the series is expressed well with their gameplay. Shion has great stats for where she is in the game, but has pitiful luck. These subtle characterizations make this game succeed for someone who came into it as a sole Touhou fan. Gameplay-wise, twice there were parts in the game where I thought to myself, "Surely there's only an hour or two left in this game." Then I saw the world open up in a completely different way through an upgrade or area being opened. The difficulty level of this game is extremely fair in my opinion, and for someone who played this as their first SMT-style game, I am satisfied with the difficulty. A lot of annoyances early on are put away by items you gain access to, or upgrades later on which makes progression feel perfect. One of my only gripes with this game is that I wish that the unique abilities that are given to only a handful of the cast were buffed and each character had their own abilities. I felt the rate of new characters with abilities fell off in the mid- to late-game, and the characters felt more like stats at the end, rather than individual characters who could provide their own unique angle in fights. The abilities themselves are also extremely weak, in my opinion, outside of a select few (Hello, Heaven and Hell), and if they were universally buffed, it might save some characters with lackluster stat spreads. But outside of those truly minor gripes, this game is amazing. I thoroughly enjoyed my time with a genre I didn't think I would and am looking forward to Udongein X2!

Feb. 2024

Damn, Shin Marisa Touhou was real all along.. Edit: I was just shitposting before, holy hell this game is amazing

Jan. 2024

This fills the SMT void in my heart, and is a clear love letter to classic dungeon crawlers. Story is engaging, without any cheesy dialogue. Artificial dream plays and feels like SMT: Strange journey, without the fluff and tedium. That is the best description I can give, whilst also being a compliment The game itself has a good balance of challenge and has SMT 4's suite-esque affinity aspects from the get go for the protag. This is done through smarter sacrificing demons/sleepers and gives more weight to currency management from the get go, instead of trivialising this aspect. This solves the biggest issue in SMT/RPGs where money is almost useless for anything other than item acquisition, since everyone is funnelled towards buying weapons and armour. Here the game asks: Which demon would you like to sacrifice and what resistances do you want from Level 1 or how often do you want to heal This is a game Atlus wishes it made, and is a true triumph and a treat for anyone thats looking for a modernised SMT experience with fresh ideas. If this sounds like something you would enjoy, you owe it to yourself to at least try the demo before committing. A true gem indeed, and requires no prior knowledge of Touhou (I have never experienced anything Touhou prior to this)

Jan. 2024

You can select "sus amogus" as a dialog option 10 out 10 a real SMT hood classic

Jan. 2024

Amazing atmosphere, great pixel art, very engaging and tense, truly pushing the envelope on what a Touhou fan game can be. And yes I built a separate PC from spare parts and bought a new GPU for this - well an ancient one (GTX 280) to play this on a CRT TV directly without messy converters.

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-92% 9.75€ 0.78€

9.2

822

Online players

123

Developer

Bar Holographic Otaku

Publisher

Bar Holographic Otaku, 东游鉴

Release 22 Sep 2023

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