Touhou: Shooting Star

As a wizard "Marisa Kirisame", Fly in the Gensokyo! This is fun game of "Touhou Project"! See beautiful danmaku of touhou characters. Develop your weapon, armor, spell card to get strong. Let's play "Danmaku"!

16 January 2020

Indie Shooter Action Fantasy

Touhou: Shooting Star is an indie developed by Stardust Laboratory, released 16 January 2020 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified 19 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB , Steam

What Touhou: Shooting Star is

Touhou: Shooting Star is an indie game developed by Stardust Laboratory and released in 2020. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

One day, Marisa Kirisame, an ordinary wizard, saw a meteor falling from the sky. The story of Marisa and the inhabitants of Gensokyo now begins.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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

What it launched against

Touhou: Shooting Star launched on 16 January 2020, within three weeks of Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Journey to the Savage Planet and Metro Exodus: Sam's Story.

Released around the same time: Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Journey to the Savage Planet, Metro Exodus: Sam's Story.