Games like Touhou Spell Carnival
If Touhou Spell Carnival is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ground Wars KDR Alpha, Legendary Hoplite and Warlordocracy — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and hypnotic. 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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Ground Wars KDR Alpha
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Top pick for Touhou Spell Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Touhou Spell Carnival.
Dive headfirst into the classic era of first-person and third person shooters with "Ground Wars KDR Alpha". Immerse yourself in the heart-pounding action and diverse arsenal that defined the early days of FPS gaming. Engage in awesome multiplayer mayhem across multiple maps.
Legendary Hoplite
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Touhou Spell Carnival.
Second-strongest match for Touhou Spell Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Touhou Spell Carnival.
A combination of Action RPG and Tower Defense: slay monsters, find weapons, upgrade your armies, defend your base… Prevent humanity from extinction at the hands of monsters from Greek mythology and ancient tribes. Don't let them cross the gate, commander!
Warlordocracy
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Shares a whimsical mood with Touhou Spell Carnival.
Third-strongest match for Touhou Spell Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Touhou Spell Carnival.
A party-based RTWP (real-time with pause) RPG that gradually grows into a large-scale strategy game as you amass soldiers and fame, or infamy.
Conquest
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Shares a challenging mood with Touhou Spell Carnival.
Ranked #4 for Touhou Spell Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Touhou Spell Carnival.
Go from alone in the forest, to leading your army to victory! Choose your weapons and level up to unlock new skills, kill enemies to earn loot and gold, and construct a village to raise an army. The open world is full of enemies and villages, all of which are ready for combat.
Dragon Banner
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Ranked #5 for Touhou Spell Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Touhou Spell Carnival.
Dragon Banner is a new mix of strategy and base-building. It is built from the love of building blocks and real-time strategy games. Discover the fate of dragons and start the resistance against the Skull Queen and her army of skeleton warriors!
Lame Defenders
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Ranked #6 for Touhou Spell Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Touhou Spell Carnival.
Fight waves of monsters in real-time tactical battles using a team of up to 5 heroes. Collect new heroes and create as many teams as you like as every team is better for different situation.
Crystania Wars 2
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Ranked #7 for Touhou Spell Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Touhou Spell Carnival.
A brand new tactical tower defense game series! Unique roguelike and Unique survival gameplay !
Brain Hack Squad
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Ranked #8 for Touhou Spell Carnival fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Touhou Spell Carnival.
Build and lead your own cybernetic hit squad as you battle rival groups. Use real time tactical combat with pause to direct your cybernetic agents in combat. Upgrade your team, brainwash enemy agents, and deploy informants to gain control of the city.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Touhou Spell Carnival at current Steam store prices.
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~70% under Touhou Spell Carnival on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Touhou Spell Carnival.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Phasmophobia
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Priced ~60% under Touhou Spell Carnival on Steam right now. Shares Action with Touhou Spell Carnival.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~80% under Touhou Spell Carnival on Steam right now. Shares Action with Touhou Spell Carnival.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~80% under Touhou Spell Carnival on Steam right now. Shares Action with Touhou Spell Carnival.
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.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~72% under Touhou Spell Carnival on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Touhou Spell Carnival.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Schedule I
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Priced ~60% under Touhou Spell Carnival on Steam right now. Shares Action and Strategy with Touhou Spell Carnival.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~70% under Touhou Spell Carnival on Steam right now. Shares Action with Touhou Spell Carnival.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Touhou Spell Carnival.
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.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and RPG with Touhou Spell Carnival.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Touhou Spell Carnival.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Touhou Spell Carnival.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Touhou Spell Carnival.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Touhou Spell Carnival.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Trick & Treat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.
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More from Idea Factory
Other recommendable Steam games by Idea Factory, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Azur Lane Crosswave
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Touhou Spell Carnival.
Another title from Idea Factory, the studio behind Touhou Spell Carnival. Shares Action and RPG with Touhou Spell Carnival.
In the middle of each nation's normal training routine, a Joint Military Exercise was enacted. A select few from each nation were chosen to participate in this rigorous event. But, how did this event come to be? Are there other ulterior motives at play?
Cyberdimension Neptunia: 4 Goddesses Online
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Another title from Idea Factory, the studio behind Touhou Spell Carnival. Shares RPG with Touhou Spell Carnival.
In this hack 'n' slash adventure co-developed with Tamsoft and Compile Heart, the 4 Goddesses enter an online fantasy game inspired by... themselves! Choose from 12 characters with unique playstyles and skills to fight in realtime brawls, customize with accessories, and play online with others!
Amnesia™: Memories
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Touhou Spell Carnival.
Another title from Idea Factory, the studio behind Touhou Spell Carnival.
You awaken to find your memories gone. To learn the truth behind your amnesia, you’ll choose from five romantic paths, each its own world. With 20+ endings, can you write the lasting love story you deserve, or will your love and life come to an end?
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth3 V Generation
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Another title from Idea Factory, the studio behind Touhou Spell Carnival. Shares Strategy and RPG with Touhou Spell Carnival.
Lost in an alternate dimension, Neptune must collect enough shares to get back home. Sounds easy – except the Seven Sages want to rid Gamindustri of CPUs, including Neptune! Help defeat them and return her to her own world in this JRPG – or be stuck in the '80s forever!
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth2: Sisters Generation
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Another title from Idea Factory, the studio behind Touhou Spell Carnival. Shares Strategy and RPG with Touhou Spell Carnival.
Gamindustri has been taken over by a new threat, and the CPUs are nowhere to be found! It’s now up to their younger sisters to step into the spotlight and save the day in this hilarious, deeply customizable JRPG!
Megadimension Neptunia VII
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Touhou Spell Carnival.
Another title from Idea Factory, the studio behind Touhou Spell Carnival. Shares Strategy and RPG with Touhou Spell Carnival.
New challengers are taking control of Gamindustri, and Neptune's nowhere in sight. Now she’s gotta help a mysterious stranger fight a colossal new evil, reclaim her Goddess title, and find some time for pudding! Go next gen with Giant Battles and multi-worlds in this JRPG!
DATE A LIVE: Rio Reincarnation
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Another title from Idea Factory, the studio behind Touhou Spell Carnival.
Show the Spirits the power of love and save the world in this romantic visual novel!
Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action Unleashed
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Shares a challenging mood with Touhou Spell Carnival.
Another title from Idea Factory, the studio behind Touhou Spell Carnival. Shares Action and RPG with Touhou Spell Carnival.
Choose your tag team and rip through massive hordes of enemies with exciting aerial and ground-based combos. Look out, though - take too many hits and your clothes and defense will end up shredded!
Frequently asked about Touhou Spell Carnival
- Is Touhou Spell Carnival verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Touhou Spell Carnival 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 Spell Carnival cost?
- Touhou Spell Carnival is listed on Steam at 49.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Touhou Spell Carnival?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Touhou Spell Carnival are Ground Wars KDR Alpha, Legendary Hoplite, Warlordocracy.
- Who developed Touhou Spell Carnival?
- Touhou Spell Carnival was developed by Idea Factory, Compile Heart, STING and published by Idea Factory International, Inc..
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