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Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia

Bar Holographic Otaku · 2023-09-22

SteamPlayStation Store

AdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Side view

Releases: Jul 03, 2025 (PlayStation 4), Jul 03, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Jul 03, 2025 (Nintendo Switch), Sep 22, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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

Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia is an Adventure, Indie, and RPG game released in 2023, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (96% of 1238 reviews).

4
playing now
96%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
4.72★
PlayStation Store rating (109 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Sumireko Usami is not a normal high-schooler at all. She is so abnormal that even the fantasy land of Gensoukyou considers her an anomaly. Truth is, she can visit Gensoukyou in her dreams!(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 4 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 88 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~11/week).
  • · Review velocity down 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 12% of 28,764 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 25k–56k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,238 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.79 at Steam (2024-12-19) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
21821820232026Week of 2023-09-01: 218 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 125 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2002026-09-15 00:00 — 11 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 11 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 15 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 13 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 19 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 11 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 14 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 6 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 9 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 12 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 7 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 8 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 10 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 9 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 11 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 10 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 7 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 8 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 8 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 11 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 14 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 6 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2548Sep 2023Aug 2026Sep 2023 — avg 254 · peak 406Oct 2023 — avg 88 · peak 326Nov 2023 — avg 32 · peak 92Dec 2023 — avg 32 · peak 64Jan 2024 — avg 29 · peak 70Feb 2024 — avg 27 · peak 60Mar 2024 — avg 26 · peak 55Apr 2024 — avg 18 · peak 37May 2024 — avg 12 · peak 30Jun 2024 — avg 13 · peak 40Jul 2024 — avg 20 · peak 43Aug 2024 — avg 12 · peak 22Sep 2024 — avg 11 · peak 33Oct 2024 — avg 29 · peak 88Nov 2024 — avg 13 · peak 40Dec 2024 — avg 68 · peak 197Jan 2025 — avg 64 · peak 161Feb 2025 — avg 24 · peak 61Mar 2025 — avg 17 · peak 34Apr 2025 — avg 16 · peak 35May 2025 — avg 14 · peak 28Jun 2025 — avg 10 · peak 24Jul 2025 — avg 15 · peak 30Aug 2025 — avg 12 · peak 22Sep 2025 — avg 9 · peak 19Oct 2025 — avg 8 · peak 19Nov 2025 — avg 8 · peak 16Dec 2025 — avg 10 · peak 25Jan 2026 — avg 12 · peak 24Feb 2026 — avg 11 · peak 25Mar 2026 — avg 9 · peak 22Apr 2026 — avg 9 · peak 21May 2026 — avg 8 · peak 18Jun 2026 — avg 13 · peak 32Jul 2026 — avg 15 · peak 37Aug 2026 — avg 10 · peak 19
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.99$0.792023-09-222026-07-092023-09-22 — best price $8.992023-09-29 — best price $9.992023-11-21 — best price $7.992023-11-28 — best price $9.992023-12-21 — best price $7.992024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-03-14 — best price $7.492024-03-21 — best price $9.992024-06-27 — best price $7.492024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-09-30 — best price $4.992024-10-07 — best price $9.992024-11-27 — best price $7.492024-12-04 — best price $9.992024-12-19 — best price $0.792025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-03-13 — best price $5.992025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-06-26 — best price $7.992025-07-10 — best price $9.992025-09-29 — best price $6.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992025-12-18 — best price $4.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-02-16 — best price $4.992026-02-23 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $4.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-06-25 — best price $3.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

38
achievements tracked
69.9%
earned "This is a Bucket"
12.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam CloudIncludes level editorFamily Sharing1 DLC

7 supported languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2023-09-22 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,2956%38
PS5 (PlayStation)6727%39
PS4 (PlayStation)2536%39
Switch (Nintendo)100%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DRPGJRPGFaith1990'sFantasyAdventureBullet HellExplorationFirst-Person

Census log

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

Players also track

Touhou Luna Nights

Similarity via IGDB.

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