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東方鬼形獣 〜 Wily Beast and Weakest Creature. cover art

東方鬼形獣 〜 Wily Beast and Weakest Creature.

上海アリス幻樂団 · Mediascape Co., Ltd. · 2019-09-09

Steam

ActionIndie

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

Releases: Aug 12, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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東方鬼形獣 〜 Wily Beast and Weakest Creature. is a $14.99 Action and Indie game released in 2019, estimated to have 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive sentiment (97% of 1069 reviews).

6
playing now
97%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
71/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Touhou Kikeijuu ~ Wily Beast and Weakest Creature is the 17th main game in the Touhou Project and the 24th game overall. It was announced on ZUN's blog on April 17, 2019. A playable demo was released on May 5, at Reitaisai 16, and the full version was released at Comiket and on Steam on August 12, at Comiket 96.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 6 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 32 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (216 reviews).
  • · Top 14% of 28,039 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 27k–64k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,069 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $10.49 at Steam (2025-08-17)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
21021020192026Week of 2019-09-01: 210 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

902026-09-15 18:00 — 3 players2026-09-17 03:00 — 3 players2026-09-18 10:00 — 5 players2026-09-19 18:00 — 5 players2026-09-21 01:00 — 8 players2026-09-22 09:00 — 7 players2026-09-23 16:00 — 5 players2026-09-25 00:00 — 2 players2026-09-26 07:00 — 7 players2026-09-27 15:00 — 7 players2026-09-28 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 06:00 — 8 players2026-10-01 13:00 — 4 players2026-10-02 21:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 05:00 — 5 players2026-10-05 13:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 04:00 — 3 players2026-10-09 11:00 — 6 players2026-10-10 19:00 — 6 players2026-10-12 02:00 — 4 players2026-10-13 10:00 — 5 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-15 09:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
603Sep 2019Aug 2026Sep 2019 — avg 60 · peak 383Dec 2019 — avg 8 · peak 29Mar 2020 — avg 9 · peak 23Jun 2020 — avg 14 · peak 42Sep 2020 — avg 9 · peak 27Dec 2020 — avg 6 · peak 20Mar 2021 — avg 8 · peak 28Jun 2021 — avg 7 · peak 24Sep 2021 — avg 6 · peak 22Dec 2021 — avg 5 · peak 15Mar 2022 — avg 4 · peak 13Jun 2022 — avg 5 · peak 16Sep 2022 — avg 4 · peak 17Dec 2022 — avg 4 · peak 14Mar 2023 — avg 4 · peak 13Jun 2023 — avg 4 · peak 14Sep 2023 — avg 4 · peak 15Dec 2023 — avg 4 · peak 13Mar 2024 — avg 4 · peak 12Jun 2024 — avg 4 · peak 13Sep 2024 — avg 4 · peak 14Dec 2024 — avg 3 · peak 11Mar 2025 — avg 4 · peak 12Jun 2025 — avg 5 · peak 15Sep 2025 — avg 5 · peak 15Dec 2025 — avg 3 · peak 10Mar 2026 — avg 3 · peak 12Jun 2026 — avg 11 · peak 41Aug 2026 — avg 6 · peak 15
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$14.99$10.492019-09-092026-06-152019-09-09 — best price $14.992025-08-17 — best price $10.492025-08-24 — best price $14.992026-06-08 — best price $10.492026-06-15 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

6482026-06-01 — 23 pageviews2026-06-05 — 20 pageviews2026-06-09 — 64 pageviews2026-06-13 — 30 pageviews2026-06-17 — 15 pageviews2026-06-21 — 31 pageviews2026-06-25 — 16 pageviews2026-06-29 — 11 pageviews2026-07-03 — 20 pageviews2026-07-07 — 16 pageviews2026-07-11 — 23 pageviews2026-07-15 — 12 pageviews2026-07-19 — 10 pageviews2026-07-23 — 26 pageviews2026-07-27 — 8 pageviews2026-07-31 — 22 pageviews2026-08-04 — 17 pageviews2026-08-08 — 18 pageviews2026-08-12 — 20 pageviews2026-08-16 — 15 pageviews2026-08-20 — 20 pageviews2026-08-24 — 14 pageviews2026-08-28 — 21 pageviews2026-09-01 — 16 pageviews2026-09-05 — 27 pageviews2026-09-09 — 20 pageviews2026-09-13 — 17 pageviews2026-09-17 — 13 pageviews2026-09-21 — 14 pageviews2026-09-25 — 14 pageviews2026-09-29 — 23 pageviews2026-10-03 — 19 pageviews2026-10-07 — 17 pageviews2026-10-10 — 11 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: Japanese

Player tags

2DCuteAnimeFaithIndieActionArcadeFantasyDifficultLore-Rich

Census log

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

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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