Vengeance is rising, and the clock is ticking fast.

Peace had returned to the Land of Illusions after the defeat of Vladrouge Scarlet, or so it seems. Beneath the autumn leaves of the Amber Woods, the Gensokyo Socialite Order is brewing a new curse that will turn your friends into enemies. A toxic substance known as glohm is infecting humanoids and youkai-borns alike, shutting their hearts and forcing them into isolation.

As the Federal Kingdom of Gensokyo is preparing to celebrate its first Autumn Equinox Festival, someone is committed to sweeping away the doom before the glohm takes hold of Kozankyo. Take control of Chief Justice Reimu Hakurei, or any of the queens of the three kingdoms from Marisa, Yukari, and Kaguya*. You’ll have to navigate the shifting boundaries of Mayohiga to the serpentine flames of Yumemura in order to find the origin of the glohm. When the sun sets, everyone must lock, load, and graze their way into beating the glohm.

• A Bold New Direction: Everything is optimized with a brand new engine for the smoothest danmaku action yet.
• Four Playable Characters: Take flight as Chief Justice Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame of the Federal Kingdom of Gensokyo, Yukari Yakumo of the Democratic Kingdom of Gensokyo, or Kaguya Houraisan of the People’s Kingdom of Gensokyo.
• Master the Mystic Arts: Unleash iconic spell cards like Fantasy Seal or Master Spark to clear the screen of enemy fire.
• All new bosses:* Battle through 8 intense stages and face off against 10+ unique bosses, including new characters and familiar faces, including the clumsy mail-tengu Kotori Tegami, the dual snake-sirens Saika and Ryuuko, and the enigmatic Berenice Grieg.
• New scrolling stages: Navigate a dark new plot where a corruptive substance is shutting the hearts of Gensokyo’s citizens. Can you break the curse before the festival begins? Watch as the stage scrolls more than just vertically – the action will turn horizontal in a few!
• An Auditory Feast: Immerse yourself in a CD-quality soundtrack that brings the Federal Kingdom of Gensokyo to life!

*As of this build, only the first six stages are complete, with eight bosses, Kotori, Ritsuu, Koko, and Helene, Ryuuko, Saika, Fusana, and Berenice being fightable.

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System Requirements

• Operating System: Windows 11 or higher (64-bit only)
• Processor: 64-bit Dual Core CPU
• Video Card: DirectX 11 or higher
• Resolution: 640×360 or higher. Screen is automatically sized based on the size of your monitor. For the best experience, we recommend using a monitor that is at least 1920 pixels wide and 1080 pixels tall.
• Hard Drive Space: 40MB
• RAM: 1GB or higher
• Controllers: Keyboard or Bluetooth-compatible gamepad

Get the game

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Source code also available from GitHub.

Version History

Beta Version 1.0.1

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where the game would crash when an enemy appeared on screen during the third and fourth stages.
• Replay file sizes have been truncated from just megabytes to less than 100 kilobytes.
• Fixed an issue where single-stage replays from stage 2 onwards, in addition to the extra and phantasm stages, were treated as “corrupt” and unloadable.
• You should now be able to back into the main replay menu.
• Fixed additional issues regarding enemy and boss behavior. Additionally, enemies no longer cling to screen borders when going off-screen.
• Reimu’s homing amulets should now point at enemies instead of off-screen entities.

Beta Version 1.0.0

Added

• Phantasm Stage added, complete with a new boss fight.
• Multiplayer mode added.
• Replay system added.

Known Issues

• Developing the replay system was anything but straightforward. During the initial steps of the process, replays kept desyncing, so we had to rewrite multiple parts of the game to prevent it. Even after spending a few days trying to tackle this problem, we had to ensure that movement physics and graphics continued to work as intended. As such, there is a risk that stage enemies, items, and/or boss behavior may not work as previously intended. Please report all known problems to the game’s GitHub page.
• The game may freeze momentarily when loading replays. This is because replays tend to get very large compared to the .rpy files produced by Team Shanghai Alice in the official games and have to load the entire directory into memory. A replay of a single stage played in Free Play Mode may only be 500KB, whereas a full playthrough may be over 3MB.

Alpha Version 1.3.0

Added

• Bewildering Parallel episode added, complete with six new stages and bosses (all stages are the same as the Cursed Sweeper episode, but with entirely new boss fights). The new boss fights include variations of Kotori, Helene, and Fusana; midboss versions of Koko and Ryuuko; midboss versions of Ritsuu and Saika; and an entirely new boss named Veronica Grieg.

Adjusted

• Enemy behavior in stages 3 and 5 has been adjusted to make the game slightly easier after playtesters complained about the high difficulty.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where the game would crash when viewing the spell card statistics screen after scrolling a certain number of entries or to the bottom.

Alpha Version 1.2.0

Added

• Extra Stage added, complete with two new bosses: Koakuma and Camille Scarlet

Fixed

• The timer for the Spite Bulb’s first attack on both encounters has been extended to 60 seconds.
• Fixed an issue where power items upon dying wouldn’t appear.
• Fixed an issue where laser warning lines wouldn’t appear during some bosses’ attacks.

Alpha Version 1.1.0

Added:

• Yukari Yakumo and Kaguya Houraisan are now playable.
• Three new stages have been added.
• The time orb system has been fully implemented. Penalties are now added upon losing a life.
• Game crashes should now save log files.
• Lives and bombs are now rewarded upon achieving a certain number of points.
• Continues have been added.

Fixed:

• Fixed an issue where spell card success rate percentages wouldn’t display correctly.
• Fixed an issue where bonus points wouldn’t be rewarded after clearing a stage.
• Objects now move more smoothly.
• The game no longer returns to the introductory sequence after exiting a game or when a game ends.
• The game no longer ends when a pause lasts more than 30 seconds.

Alpha Version 1.0.0

Initial release.