- July 17, 2025
- joy1999
Touhou Crawl
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Touhou Crawl is a single player tactical role playing game with a anime theme. It was developed by joy1999 and was released on July 17, 2025. It received overwhelmingly positive reviews from players.
A Touhou derivative roguelike game. Conquer the dungeon-ified Gensokyo using items, faith, and tactics.
- Unique Touhou-themed adaptation of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup with strong charm and personality.
- Good variety of races, classes, and gods, offering rich replayability and strategic depth.
- Accessible and enjoyable for both DCSS veterans and newcomers to roguelikes thanks to quality of life features and approachable gameplay.
- Lacks some quality of life features present in DCSS, such as detailed player model customization, auto-resting, and auto-navigation.
- Limited dungeon tile variety, with repetitive gray corridors and only a single music track throughout the game.
- Some imbalance in mechanics and insufficient in-game help system, requiring prior knowledge of DCSS or roguelike conventions to fully understand gameplay.
gameplay
3 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeThe gameplay features a clever mechanic of using food to empower the player, offering a fresh twist compared to similar games. While it is more bite-sized with fewer mechanics and variety, this allows for quicker, less punishing runs. However, some balance issues exist, and a more comprehensive help system would benefit players, especially those without prior knowledge of related games.
“Repurposing food mechanic to power one, like in shmup games, so instead of staying fed you stay empowered, is very clever.”
“At the time of writing this review, it is a bit bite-sized compared to DCSS with fewer runes, branches, mechanics, and variety, but that's perfectly fine. Shorter runs just mean you can do more of them and deaths don't sting as much.”
“There are some imbalances, and the game could use a more extensive help system, as some basic DCSS knowledge is almost required to understand all the game mechanics.”
“If I had any complaints, it is that right now there are some imbalances and the game could use a more extensive help system. Currently, some basic DCSS knowledge is almost required to understand all of the game mechanics, and even with that, I'm still not sure if STR, DEX, or INT work the same way between both games or not.”
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Touhou Crawl is a tactical role playing game with anime theme.
Touhou Crawl is available on PC and Windows.
Touhou Crawl was released on July 17, 2025.
Touhou Crawl was developed by joy1999.
Touhou Crawl has received overwhelmingly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Touhou Crawl for its gameplay but disliked it for its graphics.
Touhou Crawl is a single player game.
Similar games include Rogue Fable II, Zorbus, Tales of Maj'Eyal, Golden Krone Hotel, Tangledeep and others.