Games like Touhou: Fading Illusion
If Touhou: Fading Illusion is your kind of game, the closest matches are Curiosity, Ceiba and Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and immersive. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
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Curiosity
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Top pick for Touhou: Fading Illusion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Touhou: Fading Illusion.
"Curiosity killed the cat, but after satisfying it she was resurrected." This game is a visual novel. Features of the game - puzzles and several endings, depending on your choice.
Ceiba
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Touhou: Fading Illusion.
Second-strongest match for Touhou: Fading Illusion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Touhou: Fading Illusion.
Ein, a simple-hearted member of an expedition sent by mankind to distant planets, tries to get romantic with a pretty but cold co-worker girl. Unfortunately, he is not the only one trying to make contact as from the abandoned and desolate alien ruins, the girl receives a message in human language.
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Touhou: Fading Illusion.
Third-strongest match for Touhou: Fading Illusion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Touhou: Fading Illusion.
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
Athanasy
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Touhou: Fading Illusion.
Ranked #4 for Touhou: Fading Illusion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Touhou: Fading Illusion.
Deep beneath the surface of the dead Earth, the City, the last refuge of humanity, hides. Engineering genius and efforts of all mankind; a giant structure of steel, concrete, and biopolymers. It keeps the remnants of civilization one step away from total extinction.
Suhoshin
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Touhou: Fading Illusion.
Ranked #5 for Touhou: Fading Illusion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Touhou: Fading Illusion.
Suhoshin is a 2D Visual Novel set in the medieval Joseon period of Korea. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, you will have to make choices that will lead you down different paths toward different endings.
Agarta
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Ranked #6 for Touhou: Fading Illusion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Touhou: Fading Illusion.
Agarta has been designed to show you how valuable and important every decision you make in your individual life, every choice you make is. Because every choice you make is also a renunciation and you cannot undo any decision.
Noctuary
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Touhou: Fading Illusion.
Ranked #7 for Touhou: Fading Illusion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Touhou: Fading Illusion.
Two young illuminators, Fancia and Alina, start their adventure in the bright and fascinating Inlixaland... ...in pursuit of becoming trustworthy "The Arborangers."
Dark Nights with Poe and Munro
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Touhou: Fading Illusion.
Ranked #8 for Touhou: Fading Illusion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Touhou: Fading Illusion.
Guide local radio hosts Poe and Munro through six TV-like episodes of supernatural strangeness and sizzling on-screen chemistry. From the creators of The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker and The Shapeshifting Detective.
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Frequently asked about Touhou: Fading Illusion
- Does Touhou: Fading Illusion run on Steam Deck?
- Touhou: Fading Illusion is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is Touhou: Fading Illusion free to play?
- Yes — Touhou: Fading Illusion is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Touhou: Fading Illusion?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Touhou: Fading Illusion are Curiosity, Ceiba, Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure.
- Who developed Touhou: Fading Illusion?
- Touhou: Fading Illusion was developed by Indie Game Order.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Touhou: Fading Illusion.
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