Games like Touhou: New World
If Touhou: New World is your kind of game, the closest matches are Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity, Legacy Of The Pact and Glimmer in Mirror — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and retro. 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.
Get personalized picks →About Touhou: New World: Delve back into the world of Touhou in this bullet hell action-RPG adventure! The boundary between Gensokyo and the outside world has been breached, and it falls to Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame to discover why. Level up skills, forge new equipment, and explore Gensokyo to uncover the truth!
Players who liked Touhou: New World also play
Steam players who put hours into Touhou: New World also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Touhou: New World.
Top pick for Touhou: New World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Touhou: New World.
The world of Touhou comes alive in this beautiful action RPG (featuring “bullet hell” elements, of course!). Infamous vampire Remilia Scarlet and her dutiful maid, Sakuya, set off to chase rumors of a massive monster, all while sending baddies flying with fluid action and signature skills!
Legacy Of The Pact
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Touhou: New World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: New World.
Journey through the fantastical world destroying hordes of evil creatures and survive! Legacy Of The Pact is and action packed action survival game with some RPG and Rogue Like elements
Glimmer in Mirror
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Touhou: New World.
Third-strongest match for Touhou: New World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: New World.
Glimmer in Mirror is a 2D story-rich action shooting game. Play as Shiro in a collapsed world, to meet various unique NPCs and monsters, and gradually uncover the truth of the world through a gripping story.
Book of Demons
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Touhou: New World.
Ranked #4 for Touhou: New World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: New World.
Book of Demons is a Hack & Slash in which YOU decide the length of quests. Wield magic cards instead of weapons and slay the armies of darkness in the dungeons below the Old Cathedral. Save the terror-stricken Paperverse from the clutches of the Archdemon himself!
Tales of ARISE
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Touhou: New World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Touhou: New World.
300 years of tyranny. A mysterious mask. Lost pain and memories. Wield the Blazing Sword and join a mysterious, untouchable girl to fight your oppressors. Experience a tale of liberation, featuring characters with next-gen graphical expressiveness!
Ocean's Heart
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Touhou: New World.
Ranked #6 for Touhou: New World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: New World.
Ocean’s Heart is an epic top-down action RPG in which you explore a beautiful archipelago as a young woman named Tilia. Take on contracts to fight monsters, descend deep into ancient dungeons, defeat menacing foes, and unravel the mystery of Ocean’s Heart. All done in beautiful, bright pixel art.
Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Touhou: New World.
Ranked #7 for Touhou: New World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: New World.
Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas combines captivating storytelling, breathtaking 3D visuals and exciting gameplay into one epic action-adventure experience. In the game you explore the islands of Uncharted Seas, a world filled with many dangers, puzzles and secrets.
Ketz: Galactic Overlords
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Touhou: New World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: New World.
Sci-fantasy themed roguelite horde survival game with RPG elements. Choose your character, collect various gear, and create game-breaking builds using powerful skills from the Galactic Leaders!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Touhou: New World at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Touhou: New World on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Touhou: New World.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Touhou: New World on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: New World.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Touhou: New World on Steam right now. Shares Action with Touhou: New World.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Touhou: New World on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: New World.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Touhou: New World on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Touhou: New World.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Touhou: New World.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Touhou: New World.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Touhou: New World.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Touhou: New World.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: New World.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Touhou: New World.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Touhou: New World.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Glimmer in Mirror
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Touhou: New World.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: New World.
Glimmer in Mirror is a 2D story-rich action shooting game. Play as Shiro in a collapsed world, to meet various unique NPCs and monsters, and gradually uncover the truth of the world through a gripping story.
Tales of ARISE
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and RPG with Touhou: New World.
300 years of tyranny. A mysterious mask. Lost pain and memories. Wield the Blazing Sword and join a mysterious, untouchable girl to fight your oppressors. Experience a tale of liberation, featuring characters with next-gen graphical expressiveness!
Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Touhou: New World.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: New World.
Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas combines captivating storytelling, breathtaking 3D visuals and exciting gameplay into one epic action-adventure experience. In the game you explore the islands of Uncharted Seas, a world filled with many dangers, puzzles and secrets.
Frequently asked about Touhou: New World
- Is Touhou: New World verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Touhou: New World is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Touhou: New World cost?
- Touhou: New World is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Touhou: New World?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Touhou: New World are Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity, Legacy Of The Pact, Glimmer in Mirror.
- Who developed Touhou: New World?
- Touhou: New World was developed by Ankake Spa and published by XSEED Games, Marvelous USA, Inc..
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