- WE'RE BROKE! TOUHOU: FADING ILLUSION - IT'S ALL OVER NOW! - 1 April 2026
Just kidding! April Fool's! But it’s been quite a while since we’ve shared any news, so we’re going to fix that now. Here’s what we’ve managed to accomplish over the past three-plus months:We’ve brought 3 out of 5 global routes to a more or less final state; these will be featured in the last two days of the story. In total, these 3 routes contain over 100,000 words, which already doubles the chapter’s length, and with the two remaining routes, the volume could even triple.We’ve increased the total number of endings from 3 to 9 (not counting bad endings where the story is interrupted), but even this number isn’t final yet.We’ve made the system for unlocking certain endings more complex. Don’t expect to learn the whole truth right away!We’ve translated one route into English, the one we mentioned in the last update. Unfortunately, the bulk of the work on this front is still ahead of us,…
- Development News and Winter Sale 30% OFF! - 18 December 2025
Happy Holidays and all the best wishes! We haven't been idle these past few months: the text for most of the routes is now almost complete, and one of them (the one where nothing happens in various variations, if you know what we mean😉) is currently undergoing final editing. For now, we won't make bold statements regarding the completion time, as this route alone will feature over 20,000 new words, and the translation could take a considerable amount of time. However, here's what we can confirm:In the aforementioned route alone, there will be at least 3 distinct true endings where the narrative reaches a complete conclusion, rather than being interrupted by any circumstances.The game will feature several "common" endings obtainable in any chapter, alongside endings unique to each specific chapter.Even the shortest version of the events in the Destitute Chapter will comprise approximate…
- Now you can create mods! - 28 September 2025
Greetings! We are glad to announce that now you can create mods for our game. By mods, we primarily mean stories made with materials from our game, but it all depends on your imagination. To make your work easier and to give people who are unfamiliar with RenPy an idea of what it is, we have created a detailed guide that will help you get started if you decide to create your own mod. To create a mod, you will need a tutorial mod that contains materials from our game, as well as tools for uploading mods.We also remind you that our team has a server on Discord where you can try to find fellow modders and other Touhou Project fans.Also, from 29 September to 6 October, there will be a 20% discount on all DLC and the game soundtrack!
- Development news and a 20% discount! - 27 June 2025
Greetings! Today we would like to tell you about our plans for further updates. As we said before, editing the English translation and translating the text into other supported languages takes a lot of time at this stage of development, and as a result there can be too much time between big updates. Previously we were aiming to update the game at least every six months, but under current circumstances this is becoming an impossible task. As a result, we made the decision to finish the entire chapter at once so that we can focus on writing only at first, and on editing and translating when we can more easily review the whole product. In other words, the completion of the Destitute Chapter should not be expected until mid-2026 at the earliest. In addition, we have conducted polls on our social media pages, from which we concluded that a significant part of the audience is interested in cr…
- Hotfix to v.2.1.1 - 1 June 2025
- Some fixes in Russian and Korean translations.
- Day 3 of the Destitute Chapter is now available! - 31 May 2025
Greetings! Today we are happy to announce that Day 3 of the Destitute Chapter is fully complete. What to expect: About 30-40 thousand words or a few hours of reading in most routes. 3 new characters, including familiars faces from games of a long bygone era. Several new songs and CGs. These are included in Part 4 of the game's OST, which you will soon be able to purchase. This update is free for all owners of the Destitute Chapter. We are also offering a 10% discount for everyone who hasn't yet had a chance to purchase it, which will last until next week. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2865880/Touhou_Fading_Illusion__Destitute_Chapter/ If you encounter any bugs or would like to provide feedback or suggestions, please submit them to our Discord server or in the Steam thread. We hope you enjoy our game! Good luck! P.S. David Cronenberg has aged, but his work lives on!
- Development news and 20% discount - 3 March 2025
Greetings everyone! Unfortunately, we didn't manage to meet the original deadline, as the editing of the English translation took longer than we expected. Nevertheless, everything else is ready and we've since begun working on the next update. We need a few more weeks to finish editing the translation and translate it into other supported languages. Once that is done, we will release a big update that will be about 20-30 thousand words long and worth several hours of reading team. Right now, we're offering you both available chapters and OST at a 20% discount in celebration of the current Visual Novel Festival! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2865880/Touhou_Fading_Illusion__Destitute_Chapter/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3095760/Touhou_Fading_Illusion__Underworld_Chapter/
- New Year 30% off! - 20 December 2024
Happy New Year and all the best wishes! To celebrate, we have a holiday offer for you: both currently available chapters, as well as 3 parts of the soundtrack at a 30% discount! Discounts will last until January 2. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2865880/Touhou_Fading_Illusion__Destitute_Chapter/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3095760/Touhou_Fading_Illusion__Underworld_Chapter/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2216760/Touhou_Fading_Illusion_OST_vol1/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2505610/Touhou_Fading_Illusion_OST_vol2/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2941420/Touhou_Fading_Illusion_OST_vol3/
- Update to version 2.0.3! - 7 December 2024
Greetings friends! Today we have released a small update: Chinese, English and Brazilian Portuguese translations have been updated. Huge thanks to everyone who reported bugs! If you notice anything in the future or have any other comments or suggestions, feel free to write to us in Discord or in the corresponding threads.
- Plans for future updates - 14 November 2024
Greetings friends! Today we would like to update you on our next steps and plans. In the coming months, we will focus our efforts on the continuation of Destitute Chapter. By the end of December we plan to have script more or less finished, and to release an update with Day 3 in the first months of 2025, when most of the translations will be ready. Consequently, this and future updates to the Destitute and Underground Chapters will be free to all who have purchased them. Due to the upcoming considerable amount of work, we would like to remind you that our team is currently looking for an English text editor, as well as Japanese and Spanish translators. We also plan to open a Steam workshop, so that everyone can post their stories there, using materials from our game, as well as adding their own. We can't tell you when exactly it will be open yet, but we will make an announcement closer…
- Update to version 2.0.2! - 22 October 2024
Greetings friends! Today we have released a small update: Added Brazilian Portuguese translation of the Underworld Chapter. Improved animations in the Underworld Chapter. Added script in the Destitute and Underworld chapters. Fixed a few minor typos in the English translation. Huge thanks to everyone who reported bugs! If you notice anything in the future or have any other comments or suggestions, feel free to write to us in Discord or in the corresponding threads.
- Update to version 2.0.1! - 25 September 2024
Greetings friends! We have received a lot of feedback regarding the game's performance and have fixed a few bugs and issues that were hindering the game: Choices map of the Underworld Chapter now works correctly. Backgrounds and CG of the Underworld Chapter are now correctly added to the gallery. Fixed a bug causing the game to crash when accessing the gallery menu. Fixed a bug where censorship settings were not saved when exiting the game. Fixed a bug where some English text was displayed in Spanish. . Huge thanks to everyone who reported bugs! If you notice anything in the future or have any other comments or suggestions, feel free to write to us in Discord or in the corresponding threads in Steam.
- "Underworld Chapter" is now available! - 20 September 2024
Greetings friends! Today we are happy to present you a new DLC for our game! In the Underworld Chapter, the narrative will be carried out by Rin Kaembyo, Satori Komeiji, along with Seiji Kijin, who accidentally joins them. Together, they'll be searching (or pretending to search) for a cure for a mysterious disease that threatens to kill all the animals in the Palace of Earth Spirits. However, as we all know, a large part of the iceberg is usually hidden from view, and in order to fully realise the scale of the danger, you need to get down from its top and look under the water. We remind you that at the moment only the first day is available in this chapter. In it you will find: 1.5-2 hours of reading. 2 plot choices leading to three different outcomes. Over 10 plot CG in different scenes. 8 characters with their own detailed sprites. Based Koishi with many professions! . Unfortunately,…
- Underworld Chapter will be available on September 20! - 10 September 2024
Greetings, friends! We hope that each of you has had a good start to the school year or a work month without overtime. For us, however, the month started with the fact that several artists from our team need a little more time to finish the necessary images, so the release of the Underworld Chapter is delayed until September 20. As a reminder, this chapter will only have the first day available at the time of release, but it will contain: 1.5-2 hours of reading. 2 plot choices leading to three different outcomes. Over 10 plot CGs in different scenes. 8 characters with their own detailed sprites. Based Koishi! We will also be releasing an update for the base game and Destitute Chapter at the same time as the release of the Underworld Chapter, adding new articles, one new track, and expanding some endings. We hope you enjoy it! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3095760/Touhou_Fading_Illu…
- "Underworld Chapter" will be available soon! - 1 August 2024
Greetings friends, today we'd like to tell you a couple things about the upcoming DLC release and related changes. First of all, let's note that the Underworld Chapter will only have the first day available at the time of release, which will consist of about 2 hours of reading and 2 choices leading to 3 outcomes. Roughly the same as the first day of the Destitute Chapter, which became available a year ago. The narrative will be told from three perspectives at once, with Rin Kaenbyou, Satori Komeiji, and Seija Kijin as the protagonists. The DLC will be sold at the same price as the Destitute Chapter. We also plan to lower the price of this and future add-ons in some countries such as Kazakhstan, Ukraine or India, as well as regional prices in USD to make the price look more appropriate in comparison to the average salary in these countries. We plan to release the DLC in the second half o…
- Music room, choices map, new images and translations! - 19 June 2024
Greetings, friends! Today we are ready to present you an update of the game. It contains: Translation for day 2 of the Destitute Chapter into Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and French. Japanese translation of the Prologue. Music room. Choices map. A few new images for the Destitute Chapter. Some fixes in text and display of some images. This update does not include the additional Destitute Chapter story content that we talked about in the previous news. It will be in the next update that we are currently working on. Also, please note that we are currently looking for translators for Japanese and Traditional Chinese and editor for English translations, as the translators on our team can no longer devote enough time to translation. If one of these languages is your native language (or you are confidently fluent in it), and you have the desire and free time to participate in the game's deve…
- Our plans for 2024. - 27 April 2024
Greetings friends! Today we would like to announce our plans for the rest of this year. 1. First of all, we would like to inform you that we have decided to do 2 chapters in parallel to be able to release more updates. As we said earlier, a lot of the sprites and backgrounds will be reused in the different chapters, which means that as we've created the Destitute Chapter, we've accumulated a significant amount of material for the Underworld Chapter. It will take us a two or three months to finish all the necessary material, and approximately in early fall we will be able to release the first day of the chapter. We won't make any specific promises for now, so that we don't have to finish everything in a hurry like we did with the last update. 2. As for Destitute Chapter - we plan to do a third day at the end of this year. As with the Underworld chapter, a lot of the material will be reus…
- OST vol.3 is already available! - 17 April 2024
Greetings, friends! We are glad to announce that the third part of the game OST is now available for purchase! There are 18 tracks by Mille Oculos and 1 track by Moon-Tone available in normal and high quality: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2941420/Touhou_Fading_Illusion_OST_vol3/ Also please note that there will be a 25% discount on the first two parts of the OST for the next 2 weeks to celebrate the release of the third part: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2216760/Touhou_Fading_Illusion_OST_vol1/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2505610/Touhou_Fading_Illusion_OST_vol2/
- Update to version 1.2.2! - 4 April 2024
Greetings friends! We received feedback from players who bought the DLC and made some corrections to the text and interface. As it turned out, in some places in the English text we mixed up the races of creatures (ghosts and phantoms) and slightly incorrectly conveyed the meaning of phrases. We hope that this will make the text clearer and easier to read!
- Destitute Chapter is already available! - 31 March 2024
Greetings friends, today we are proud to announce that you can now play the new version of the Destitute Chapter! From now on, the free part of the game will only contain the Prologue, and all subsequent content will be sold as regularly updated DLC. At the moment, the first two of the six planned days of the Destitute Chapter are available, which totals to about 6-7 hours of reading. We apologise to everyone who was expecting the DLC to be released on the 29th of March, as we originally promised, but at the very last moment it turned out that a couple of key scenes didn't have some illustrations ready (the artist couldn't finish them on time due to health issues and told us about that just a couple of hours before release), so we had to make some changes and crutches to make those scenes still look impressive. But everything is definitely ready to go now! We hope you enjoy it! From the…
