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Games like Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors

If Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors is your kind of game, the closest matches are Breachwalk Survivor, Spell Disk and W.A.N.D. Project — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its character unlock progression, challenging and cozy. 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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About Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors: Youkai have overrun Gensokyo! There's no resolving this incident, just try to survive! Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors is the latest take on the survivor genre, this time with the unique twist of a grid-based inventory system. Hoard as many items as possible if you want to survive!

2023ActionIndieCasual0.99 USDWindowsby Xeloph
Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors — Steam game cover
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Being the op bullet hell boss for onceCharacter unlock progressionCozy low pressure runs with high replayabilityChallengingCozyHypnotic

Players who liked Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors also play

Steam players who put hours into Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors 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.

  1. Breachwalk Survivor

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Breachwalk Survivor is a single-player game combines survivor genre with inventory management. Before sneaking into another dimension, it’s better to plan which weapons to craft and strategize the path. Stealing just one 'World Core' will save your world, but there’s still extra space in your bag...

    2025ActionStrategyIndie2.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Spell Disk

    WHY THIS

    Shares wave based survival, build variety, roguelite and a hypnotic mood with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Second-strongest match for Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Build unique synergy spell combos to destroy the hordes of monsters and bosses in this rogue-lite action game.

    2024ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. W.A.N.D. Project

    WHY THIS

    Shares wave based survival, roguelite progression, roguelite and a whimsical mood with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Third-strongest match for Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Fast-paced, roguelike bullet hell with deep, unique spellcrafting. Create and use overpowered, game-shattering spells by combining a multitude of magical elements. Defend Tokyo from a monstrous invasion using magic, reflexes, and game-changing combos.

    2024ActionIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. PARA♰BELLUM ~ 魔弹帕菈

    WHY THIS

    Shares a whimsical mood with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Ranked #4 for Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Necromancer's army is gathering! But he can't afford Necronomicon Prime so his army can only use free medieval equipment set... We believe that one battle sister can solve them well. Go Forth, Sister Para, Blast your enemy in this survivor-like shooter game!

    2024ActionIndie1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Froguelike

    WHY THIS

    Shares wave based survival, build variety, cute and a cozy mood with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Ranked #5 for Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Your choices matter in Froguelike where you play as a frog on a mission to eat all the bugs. Level up, choose new tongues and upgrades, become unstoppable and run straight into the swarm! Unlock all frogs, tongues, items and chapters to become the most powerful frog in the pond.

    2024ActionIndieCasual2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Centipede Gun

    WHY THIS

    Shares wave based survival, roguelite progression, roguelite and a hypnotic mood with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Ranked #6 for Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Centipede Gun is a roguelite autobattler where you create bizzare creatures to face hordes of enemies! Combine different guns, modules and skills to make unique synergies and upgrade your cute little destruction machine!

    2023ActionStrategyIndie2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Runic Survivor

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Combine Runes to craft unique spells! Survive the endless hordes of monsters as you work to break the four Runic seals! Runic is a casual horde shooter with rogue-lite elements and a charming retro aesthetic.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie2.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Halls of Torment

    WHY THIS

    Shares achievement hunting and a challenging mood with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Ranked #8 for Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?

    2024ActionIndieRPG6.66 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Reviewers of Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Resident Evil 4

    WHY THIS

    Shares inventory management and a challenging mood with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Reviewers of Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.

    2023ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Touhou Library Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Reviewers of Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Thousands of fairies and familiar faces are swarming the Scarlet Devil Mansion Library! Help Patchouli Knowledge survive by attacking back with bullet hell Spell Cards, gathering experience, and upgrading exponentially!

    2022ActionIndieCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors at current Steam store prices.

  1. UBERMOSH

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.

    2015ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Miss Neko

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)

    2019ActionCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. QUICKERFLAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Save Jesus

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!

    2016IndieCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Barro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Choose your little car and race!

    2018IndieCasualRacing0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Gachi Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?

    2018ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Trip to Vinelands

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.

    2016ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. TTV2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    TTV2 is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame, sequel to Trip to Vinelands.

    2017ActionIndie0.49 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Virtual Cottage

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.

    2020IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Spell Disk

    WHY THIS

    Shares wave based survival, build variety, roguelite and a hypnotic mood with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Build unique synergy spell combos to destroy the hordes of monsters and bosses in this rogue-lite action game.

    2024ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Froguelike

    WHY THIS

    Shares wave based survival, build variety, cute and a cozy mood with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Your choices matter in Froguelike where you play as a frog on a mission to eat all the bugs. Level up, choose new tongues and upgrades, become unstoppable and run straight into the swarm! Unlock all frogs, tongues, items and chapters to become the most powerful frog in the pond.

    2024ActionIndieCasual2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Halls of Torment

    WHY THIS

    Shares achievement hunting and a challenging mood with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors.

    Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?

    2024ActionIndieRPG6.66 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors

How much does Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors cost?
Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors are Breachwalk Survivor, Spell Disk, W.A.N.D. Project.
Who developed Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors?
Touhou: Gensokyo Survivors was developed by Xeloph.

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