Touhou Gouyoku Ibun: Sunken Fossil World (2021) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Touhou Gouyoku Ibun: Sunken Fossil World

Touhou Gouyoku Ibun: Sunken Fossil World is the 17.5th installment of the Touhou Project, created by Team Shanghai Alice, with Twilight Frontier's collaboration. The game is described as a "horizontal…

24 October 2021

What Touhou Gouyoku Ibun: Sunken Fossil World is

Touhou Gouyoku Ibun: Sunken Fossil World is an adventure game developed by Team Shanghai Alice and released in 2021. It was published by Phoenixx Inc.. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Black water gushed out onto the surface. The water released an odd odour, and was hard to get off once stuck to one's body. It was not something that you could use as your everyday water. Some saw the gushing water as misfortune, some as good fortune; some saw it as holy, while others as evil; some saw it as a natural disaster, some saw it as a business opportunity, various theories were tossed around. Some even started a festival and made a fuss. But not long after, an event occurred that put a horrific damper on their buoyant moods. From the springs that they drank from, the beautiful clear streams, the hot springs at rest spots... from every location it possibly could, the black water…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Touhou Project series

Touhou Gouyoku Ibun: Sunken Fossil World is the 55th of 71 entries we hold in the Touhou Project series. The next entry was Touhou Crisis in 2022.

See all 71 Touhou Project games in release order →

What it launched against

Touhou Gouyoku Ibun: Sunken Fossil World launched on 24 October 2021, within three weeks of Age of Empires IV, Forza Horizon 5, Unpacking and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. It arrived 4 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Age of Empires IV, Forza Horizon 5, Unpacking, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy.

Official trailer