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Best 1 Touhou: Imperishable Night

Touhou Eiyashou: Imperishable Night is the eighth main entry in the Touhou Project series of bullet hell shoot-'em-ups, created by Jun'ya Ota (ZUN) and released in 2004. The game is distinguished by its two-character team system, allowing players to switch between a human and a youkai protagonist wi...

2 Touhou: Perfect Cherry Blossom

Touhou: Perfect Cherry Blossom is the seventh main installment in the Touhou Project series of bullet hell shoot-'em-up games, created by Jun'ya "ZUN" Ota and released by Team Shanghai Alice in August 2003 for Windows PC. It introduced a cherry blossom-based scoring system where collecting cherry it...

3 Touhou: Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom

"Touhou: Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom" is a bullet hell shoot 'em up developed by Team Shanghai Alice, also known as Jun'ya Ota or ZUN. Released in 2015 as the fifteenth main entry in the Touhou Project series, the game features the traditional vertical scrolling, high-density projectile dodging the fr...

4 Touhou: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

Touhou: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil is a bullet-hell shoot-em-up game developed by Team Shanghai Alice, the doujin circle of Japanese developer ZUN. Released in August 2002, it is the sixth game in the Touhou Project series and the first to be released for Windows PC, following earlier titles on the...

5 Touhou Luna Nights

Touhou Luna Nights is a challenging 2D metroidvania game created by Team Ladybug. It builds upon the established Touhou universe, offering intricate level design and demanding combat reminiscent of the popular bullet-hell shooter series. The game’s focus on precise movement and strategic dodging mak...

6 Touhou: Mountain of Faith

Touhou: Mountain of Faith is a bullet hell shoot 'em up developed by Team Shanghai Alice, specifically the solo developer ZUN, and released in 2007. As the tenth main entry in the Touhou Project series, the game streamlines previous gameplay mechanics by introducing a simplified power system where c...

7 Touhou: Subterranean Animism

Touhou: Subterranean Animism is the eleventh main installment in the Touhou Project series of bullet hell shoot 'em ups, created by the solo developer known as ZUN and released in 2008. The game features a vertical scrolling format where players navigate underground caverns filled with spirits and s...

8 Touhou: Unconnected Marketeers

Touhou: Unconnected Marketeers is the eighteenth main installment in the Touhou Project series of bullet hell shooters, developed by Team Shanghai Alice and released in 2021. It introduces a card-acquisition mechanic where players purchase ability cards from mid-stage vendors to gain passive buffs a...

9 Touhou 7: Perfect Cherry Blossom

Touhou 7: Perfect Cherry Blossom is a vertical-scrolling bullet hell shooter developed by Team Shanghai Alice and released in 2003. Designed by the sole developer known as ZUN, it is the seventh main entry in the Touhou Project series. The game introduces a unique cherry blossom scoring mechanic tha...

10 Touhou: Wily Beast and Weakest Creature

Touhou: Wily Beast and Weakest Creature is a vertical-scrolling bullet hell shoot-'em-up game developed by Team Shanghai Alice. It is the seventeenth main entry in the Touhou Project series, initially released at the 2019 Comiket convention. The gameplay introduces a unique mechanic where players ab...

11 Touhou: Undefined Fantastic Object

Touhou: Undefined Fantastic Object is a vertical-scrolling bullet hell shoot-'em-up developed by Team Shanghai Alice. Released in 2009, it is the twelfth main game in the Touhou Project series created by sole developer ZUN. The gameplay is distinguished by a mechanic where players collect colored UF...

12 Touhou Genso Wanderer Reloaded

Touhou Genso Wanderer Reloaded is an expanded release of a Touhou Project spin-off roguelike game in the mystery dungeon genre, in which players navigate procedurally generated dungeons using turn-based movement and combat. Set in the Touhou Project universe created by Team Shanghai Alice, the game...

13 Touhou 8: Imperishable Night

Touhou 8: Imperishable Night is a vertical bullet hell shooter developed by Team Shanghai Alice and released in 2004. As the eighth entry in the Touhou Project series, the game features a unique mechanic where players control pairs of human and youkai characters, switching between them to alter thei...

14 Touhou: Double Dealing Character

Touhou: Double Dealing Character is the fourteenth main entry in the Touhou Project series of bullet hell shooters, developed by Team Shanghai Alice and released in 2013. The game's narrative centers on tsukumogami—everyday tools and objects that have come to life—causing chaos. Players choose from...

15 Touhou: Hidden Star in Four Seasons

Touhou: Hidden Star in Four Seasons is the sixteenth mainline game in the Touhou Project series of bullet hell shoot-'em-ups, created by the solo developer known as ZUN and released in 2017 for Windows. The game introduces a seasonal sub-weapon system, allowing players to select from spring, summer,...

16 Touhou 11: Subterranean Animism

Released in 2008 by Team Shanghai Alice, "Touhou 11: Subterranean Animism" is a vertical-scrolling bullet hell shoot 'em up developed for Windows PCs. The narrative follows series protagonists Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame as they journey into the underground realm to investigate a geothermal cr...

17 Touhou: Ten Desires

Touhou: Ten Desires is a bullet hell shoot 'em up developed by Jun'ya Ota and published by Team Shanghai Alice in 2011. As the thirteenth main entry in the Touhou Project series, the game features vertically scrolling combat where players dodge complex patterns of projectiles. The gameplay is distin...

18 Touhou Genso Wanderer

Touhou Genso Wanderer is a 2015 roguelike role-playing game developed by Aqua Style and published in the West by NIS America. Belonging to the mystery dungeon subgenre, it features turn-based exploration of procedurally generated dungeons where players lose their equipment upon defeat. The game util...

19 Touhou 10: Mountain of Faith

Touhou 10: Mountain of Faith is a vertical bullet hell shooter developed by Team Shanghai Alice and released in 2007. Created by the sole developer known as ZUN, it initiated the second Windows era of the Touhou Project series. The game introduces a streamlined power system and follows protagonist R...

20 Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

Touhou Koumakyou: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil is a vertically scrolling bullet-hell shooter created by ZUN and released for Windows in 2002. It is the sixth main Touhou Project game and the first made for Windows rather than the NEC PC-98 platform. Players control Reimu Hakurei or Marisa Kirisam...

21 Touhou 12: Undefined Fantastic Object

Touhou 12: Undefined Fantastic Object is a vertically scrolling bullet-hell shooter created by ZUN and released for Windows in 2009 as part of the Touhou Project series. Players choose from Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame, and Sanae Kochiya and investigate a mysterious flying ship while navigating de...

22 Touhou 17: Wily Beast and Weakest Creature

Released in 2019 by ZUN, it introduces animal spirit companions—wolf, otter, and eagle—each granting the player distinct offensive and mobility abilities.

23 Touhou 14: Double Dealing Character

Released in 2013 by ZUN, its rebellion theme is reflected mechanically in item behavior that shifts depending on the player's power level during a run.

24 Touhou 18: Unconnected Marketeers

Released in 2021 by ZUN, it introduces a card-based ability system where players collect skill cards dropped by defeated enemies to customize their playstyle.

25 Touhou 13: Ten Desires

Released in 2011 by ZUN, it introduces a Divine Spirit gauge mechanic and follows a storyline involving mysterious divine spirits materializing across Gensokyo.

26 Touhou Genso Wanderer: Lotus Labyrinth R

Touhou Genso Wanderer: Lotus Labyrinth R is Aqua Style's rebuilt 2021 version, revising the 2019 Touhou roguelike with expanded party systems.

27 Touhou 15: Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom

Released in 2015 by ZUN, it is known for extreme difficulty and introduces Point Device mode, a checkpoint-based system allowing incremental progress through stages.

28 Touhou 12.8: Great Fairy Wars

A 2010 spinoff by ZUN starring Cirno that replaces conventional shooting with an ice-freeze mechanic used to neutralize and redirect incoming enemy bullets.

29 Touhou 9.5: Shoot the Bullet

A 2005 spinoff by ZUN starring tengu reporter Aya Shameimaru, who must photograph enemies' bullet patterns rather than destroy them to clear each stage.

30 Touhou 9: Phantasmagoria of Flower View

A 2005 versus-style bullet hell by ZUN with a large character roster competing in split-screen format, set during an abnormal simultaneous flower bloom in Gensokyo.

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