Labyrinth of Touhou Tri -The Dreaming Girls & The Mysterious Orbs-

So far its been very fun, I am still very early into the game so I cant say too much yet, but it managed to pull me in as someone who normally doesnt play this genre of game. I am very excited to keep playing, and I would highly recommend. Also the dev seems to be very passionate about this game, which is always a wonderful site.

If you liked 2, you'll probably like this one too. If you're someone looking for a turn based (action bar based?) RPG with a focus on teambuilding and strategy, you'll like this game. Some of the teambuilding aspects have been watered down from LOT2 but the new content they add (skill trees that can give a character multiple playstyles, and equipment upgrading) makes up for it.

Edit for Steam Deck mention: I played this game probably 75/25 between Steam Deck/PC. Steam Deck sometimes crashes on boot but once you are in it works well until specific instances. Attacks with huge effects will crash the game sometimes, and I encountered one specific dungeon floor that the game just wouldn't load. I believe I encountered 4 instances where the game would always crash on Steam Deck: 3 due to specific attacks from enemies and once because of that dungeon floor. If you only have a Steam Deck I'd wait for fixes, but if you can play PC as well you can get around it. I experienced zero issues when playing on PC. Normal review: Genuinely some of the best turn based combat you can find. You bring 12 characters into each dungeon run, where 4 are in front and 8 are in reserves. Allies and enemies have an active time gauge that fills based on their speed. You have a "formation" command, which lets any character on their turn swap any other character out from reserves to the frontline, or to simply move the frontline around. This means you can for instance do an attack with a very high delay, then with a different character immediately afterward swap the delayed character out for someone else. That and much more strategy is provided just through the formations, but you also have 48 total characters all with unique SKILL TREES and playstyles, as well as gear to upgrade. Every character is actually useful, though most shine in specific situations such as enemies being weak to their primary element or debuff. I thought Chen the housecat was a joke character for a long time yet they carried a couple of physical-weak boss fights when I gave her a chance. By the way, the bosses are difficult. Start the game on Lunatic difficulty, and if you aren't liking it you can lower it (but not raise it back)! Besides the combat there are dungeons which each have their own puzzle mechanics. The puzzles stay relatively simple until you're pretty deep in, so you're eased into it if you're new to this kind of game. Labyrinth of Touhou Tri has a ton of QoL such as wiping in the dungeon just sending you back to base with your save intact. You can easily exit the dungeon any time from the menu, freely edit character skill trees, level down characters, retry bosses immediately after wiping while also being able to swap characters in and out from base. I knew almost nothing about Touhou going into this game. There are a lot of high concepts and in-jokes that are difficult for a newcomer to understand, but the game tries its best to explain various things and even provide a couple paragraphs per character every time you recruit a new one. To be honest the story is not something I was getting the game for so I didn't give it too much attention, though it did get some laughs out of me. The characters regardless are very cool and I definitely came out with some favorites; namely Sakuya, Sagume, and Koishi character wise. My favorite to use in combat were Chen, Doremy and Kokoro. Also worth mentioning this game is getting a FREE huge postgame update (which they have apparently done similar in the previous game?). Multiple new dungeons, bosses, equipment, and I don't know what else but I will be there no matter what. This has become a top 10 all time for me, and I heavily recommend anyone even slightly interested in this gameplay to give it a try.

First ever review, but should do more for games that i really enjoy, and feel like other people would also really like. Beat the game, and just taking a break and waiting for the post game later on I have seen quiet a few complaints about the difficulty, i played on hardest difficulty and yeah moving to a new zone was hard at the beginning and the boss was even harder, but i played it because i wanted it that way, if you like grinding then definitely play on lunatic and go at it vs the bosses, if you don't like grinding or hard bosses then no point in harder difficulties, I'm not going to put the game on Lunatic and complain about difficulty. No bugs from me in all my hours played on the pc. Now some points about what i really liked and feel other people will enjoy: -Touhou- Have not played many Touhou games or consumed the media, but really liked it -40+ characters- With a lot of different play styles so you will definitely have options of who you want to use in your party. -Played on hardest difficulty and felt like the grind/move forward with story was kind of perfect and i enjoyed it, if you don't like much grinding then i recommend going a lower difficulty. -Playstyle- So many characters and there is a lot of options on how you want to play, are there OP characters or some better than others? yeah i think so, but i enjoyed just picking who i liked and then making them work. -Bosses- Lunatic- they were pretty hard but i enjoyed grinding and looking for a strategy to beat them, you cant just force your way through with whatever party you want, unless you are overleveled. -Story- i really liked the story, nothing crazy but not bad at all. Definitely give the game a try if anything sounded interesting to you, or if you like turn-base dungeon crawlers. they also have a demo so give that a try if you are still unsure. The game does have some flaws and other reviews have said them, but overall the game is good enough, that i don't even remember or don't even care for the flaws that the game had. 1 good tip i have is to not feel like you have to rush the story, just take your time and enjoy everything the game has to offer.

great evolution from the second game

一如既往高水准的drpg，期待dlc

fun :)

神作，数值和机制恰到好处，boss战可以锻炼脑力（大概 L难度真的打不过就上四笨蛋buff的轮椅，什么都能给你锤烂

An excellent DRPG with great map design and engaging bosses at a bargain price. Be aware before you start playing: there are currently major issues with the save system that may result in lost progress. 1. Every individual save slot is actually a set of ~100 tiny files stored in a folder. This is apparently too much for the Steam Cloud sync system to handle. Uploads / downloads of save data frequently fail silently, resulting in partial losses of progress (for example, it might sync your characters' level up progress, but not your map progress). These problems are particularly common if you install the game on multiple PCs / devices and have Steam running on both of them simultaneously. 2. If you disable Steam Cloud (cloud saves) for this game after previously using them, your saves will unpredictably delete themselves. I lost many hours of progress as a result of this bug. I'd strongly suggest only installing this game on one device.

凹死我了