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Touhou: Dreaming Butterfly | 东方蝶梦志 cover art

Touhou: Dreaming Butterfly | 东方蝶梦志

弦语蝶梦 · 2018-10-14

Steam

ActionCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Aug 18, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

"Touhou Dreaming Butterfly" is a fan game for Touhou Project developed by Strrationalism. The game is intended for game players who enjoy the horizontal STG and to promote the contrasting gaming mode for others who are accustomed to the vertical STG gaming of the original Touhou Project.

82%
positive of 72 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$14.99
steam price (US)

It says that people entered someone’s dream inadvertently in Gensokyo. The leading roles are also our miko and magician. As the only ‘waking’ people, they came across acquaintances, one of who was abnormal manic, or sinister, or strange, or…themselves?(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 30% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 50% of 22,298 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.8k–4.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 72 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
131320182025Week of 2018-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$5.992018-10-152021-02-152018-10-15 — best price $14.992018-11-27 — best price $14.992019-01-03 — best price $14.992019-02-11 — best price $14.992019-03-08 — best price $14.992019-07-09 — best price $14.992019-08-05 — best price $14.992019-09-23 — best price $14.992019-11-01 — best price $14.992019-11-11 — best price $14.992019-12-03 — best price $14.992020-01-02 — best price $14.992020-01-27 — best price $14.992020-03-02 — best price $14.992020-04-20 — best price $14.992020-06-08 — best price $14.992020-07-09 — best price $14.992020-10-26 — best price $14.992020-11-02 — best price $14.992020-12-01 — best price $14.992021-01-05 — best price $14.992021-02-15 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2018-09-14 (Steam store data)

Player tags

FaithIndieActionCasualBullet HellShoot 'Em Up

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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