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東方文花帖 ～ Shoot the Bullet. cover art

東方文花帖 ～ Shoot the Bullet.

上海アリス幻樂団 · Mediascape Co., Ltd. · 2021-06-18

Steam

ActionIndie

Franchise: Touhou Project · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jun 17, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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東方文花帖 ～ Shoot the Bullet. is a $10.99 Action and Indie game released in 2021, with an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (97% of 119 reviews).

1
playing now
97%
positive of 119 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$10.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Touhou Bunkachou ~ Shoot the Bullet. , commonly abbreviated as StB in English-speaking circles, is a 2005 bullet hell photography game in the Touhou Project by Team Shanghai Alice. It is the second spinoff in the series and is numbered as the 9.5th installment, as the events take place between Phantasmagoria of Flower View and Mountain of Faith. It was first released at Comiket 69 on December 30, 2005.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 18 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 38% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 36% of 27,841 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.4k–5.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 119 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620212026Week of 2021-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

502026-09-15 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 12:00 — 5 players2026-09-19 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 11:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 17:00 — 4 players2026-09-29 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 07:00 — 2 players2026-10-05 14:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 05:00 — 2 players2026-10-09 13:00 — 4 players2026-10-10 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 04:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 12:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: Japanese

Player tags

2DAnimeFaithIndieActionShooterDifficultBullet HellScore AttackShoot 'Em Up

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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