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.

[ 2024-12-07 07:17:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

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 to the launch date. For the convenience of creating mods we will make a detailed guide with the rules of code writing, necessary actions and everything else, which will be available in all languages supported by the main game. Thanks for your attention and see you soon!

[ 2024-11-14 18:53:53 CET ] [ Original post ]

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.

[ 2024-10-22 04:01:14 CET ] [ Original post ]

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.

[ 2024-09-25 08:46:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

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, Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese translations are not yet available, but we are working on them and will try to add them as soon as possible. Also in this update we have improved the in-game links system, fixed some bugs in the code, typos in the text and defects in the script. If you find a bug or have any questions or suggestions, feel free to post them in the relevant threads, and if you want to praise or criticise us, we are always happy to receive your reviews on the game or DLC. Also, to celebrate the release of the new DLC for the next 2 weeks, Destitute and Underworld Chapters will be discounted by 5% and 25% respectively. In some countries, such as Kazakhstan, Ukraine, India, Indonesia and Vietnam, the prices for both add-ons have been additionally reduced because Steam automatically charged an quite high price for some countries and we didn't pay attention to it initially. We hope you enjoy our work! See you soon! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3095760/Touhou_Fading_Illusion__Underworld_Chapter/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2865880/Touhou_Fading_Illusion__Destitute_Chapter/

[ 2024-09-20 10:33:38 CET ] [ Original post ]

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_Illusion__Underworld_Chapter/

[ 2024-09-10 03:11:11 CET ] [ Original post ]

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 of August.

Due to the fact that we will now have 2 DLCs available at once, we have changed the subscription terms for our Patreon and now you will be able to get any of the chapters of your choice for each month of your subscription. See the pinned announcement on our page there for details. For now, you can add the Underworld chapter to your wishlist, and we'll announce the exact release date in a little while. Bye, we will see you again soon! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3095760/Touhou_Fading_Illusion__Underworld_Chapter

[ 2024-08-01 17:30:01 CET ] [ Original post ]

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 development, you can write to our working e-mail (vntouhou@gmail.com) or go to our Discord server, where you can contact the main developer. In addition to knowledge of Japanese or Traditional Chinese, decent knowledge of English or Russian is also required to communicate with the developers and understand the game text. Please be warned, however, that due to our very limited budget we will not be able to pay for your work immediately and therefore we offer you to participate on a mostly volunteer basis.

[ 2024-06-19 19:42:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

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 reused, and the work will be mostly behind the new CG and text. 3. The Portuguese and French translations of the second day of the Destitute Chapter are almost ready and will be released soon with an update, which will also significantly lighten its weight by optimizing the resources used. The Spanish translation is a bit delayed at the moment, but we will try to release it as soon as possible. In addition, we have almost finished the Japanese translation of the Prologue and will probably release it separately from the Destitute Chapter translation. 4. Also we are currently working on a big update that will add a music room, an in-game choices map, missing articles and dictionary illustrations, and expand some scenes. All in all, it will make for about 10-20 minutes of reading time. The choice map will look something like this:
You will see all scenes as blocks with "?" if you haven't reached them yet, and blocks of already passed scenes will contain a brief description of events. We may add a pop-up window with a more detailed description of the scene, because the novel is large and many players may forget some of the previous events. Expect an update closer to the beginning of June. Don't forget about us! See you soon!

[ 2024-04-27 15:08:56 CET ] [ Original post ]

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/

[ 2024-04-17 21:53:58 CET ] [ Original post ]

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!

[ 2024-04-04 23:16:28 CET ] [ Original post ]

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 new content you can expect: 10 new characters actively involved in the story! 7 new choices leading to a total of 9 different outcomes! 5-6 hours of reading! We would also like to inform you that due to the rush in the final stages of production, we have not added some minor elements to the game, like articles about youkai races and some locations to the dictionary. There may also be some bugs, typos and odd things in the script, which we will try to fix within a few weeks of release. Further updates will include fixes, translations, new images and UI improvements. We'll tell you about our future plans soon, but for now we hope you enjoy it! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2865880/Touhou_Fading_Illusion__Destitute_Chapter/

[ 2024-03-31 06:19:37 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings friends, today we're excited to let you know that we're at the finish line in the development of Day 2 of the Destitute Chapter and are ready to announce a release date! Here are the key points we'd like to highlight right now:

• The update will be available on March 29th and will contain around 4-5 hours of reading time, increasing all of the currently available Destitute Chapter content to 6-7 hours of reading time.
• Russian, English, and Chinese languages will be available at the time of release, with Spanish, Portuguese, and French translations to be added within a few weeks of release.
• Once the DLC is released, the first day of the Destitute Chapter will no longer be free.
• You will be able to purchase Destitute Chapter for 9.99 USD (regional prices may be different) as DLC for the main game, which will remain free and will only contain the Prologue. Keep in mind that by purchasing the DLC you get access to the WHOLE chapter at once, which includes all future updates as well.
• People who purchased the DLC key using Patreon will receive it to their account-linked mail.

You can add Destitute Chapter to your wishlist now, so you definitely won't miss the moment of release! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2865880/Touhou_Fading_Illusion__Destitute_Chapter/

[ 2024-03-15 15:50:13 CET ] [ Original post ]

Happy Holidays! We have made a 50% discount on the purchase of both parts of the game's soundtrack, so if you wanted to buy it, you can do it with extra benefit now. The discount will be valid until the 4th of January. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2216760/Touhou_Fading_Illusion_OST_vol1/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2505610/Touhou_Fading_Illusion_OST_vol2/

[ 2023-12-25 15:58:57 CET ] [ Original post ]

Greetings! It's been a while since we've made any development news, but today we're finally ready to present you finished Spanish and French translations and also some edits in both Chinese versions! This release has been a bit delayed due to other translator busyness, but that's over now. If you decide to read the game in these languages and notice any bugs or significant translation flaws, feel free to post about it in the corresponding thread or on our Discord server! Also, we would like to inform you that at the moment other work on the update is progressing as planned. There were some difficulties with text editing, but it will be more or less finished by the end of November in order to start translations in December. If it is not possible to complete all translations in time, we allow the possibility of releasing the translations separately from the update itself. P.S. A huge thanks to you for your financial support on Patreon! People who have subscribed to the highest tier have already been added to the in-game list.

[ 2023-11-11 00:29:45 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello everyone! We have some important news to share. After carefully assessing the development costs, we have decided to adjust our monetization strategy to ensure the continued sustainability of our project. The Destitute Chapter will now be distributed as paid DLC. Like all the upcoming chapters, it will cost $9 (subject to regional price adjustment) and will be released in DLC format for the main game. Since we do not have the resources to release the entire chapter at once, the game will remain in Early Access. Moving forward, the base game will be limited to the Prologue, and our focus will be on developing additional chapters. Don't worry! The Destitute Chapter will only be sold as DLC after the next major update. Until then, the first day will remain free. We anticipate that playing through all five days of The Destitute Chapter will take up to 6-8 hours, and exploring all of the branching paths will result in around 20 hours of total playtime. The second day of the chapter, which we plan to release in early 2024, will add 6-8 hours of content to the game, bringing the current playtime for this chapter to around 10 hours. After some time, we will make a DLC page on the Steam store so that you can add it to your wishlist and make sure you don't miss out on the release. Due to this change in our monetization strategy, we have added new subscription tiers on our Patreon. By subscribing to the $9 tier, you'll receive a DLC key after the update is released, delivered to the email associated with your account. At the $30 tier, you'll also earn a spot on the in-game 'Thank You' list. Visit our Patreon page for full details. Since this was not originally planned, we will also send keys to all those who supported us on Boosty before. So be patient for the next six months, and we will do our best with the next update. Thank you for continuing to follow the project and support us! See you! P.S. Happy Cirno Day!

[ 2023-09-09 10:11:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello guys! Our team is happy to inform you that support for Traditional and Simplified Chinese has been added to our game! In the coming days, we will make a news post detailing our further development plans and updating the roadmap. [previewyoutube=WE41scAxKHA;full][/previewyoutube]

[ 2023-09-05 16:59:27 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi guys! We are glad to inform you that in the latest update to version 1.1.2 we added a Brazilian Portuguese translation, fixed text and graphical bugs, and redesigned the choice system. Initially, we wanted to give you the ability to freely switch between the chapters you read, but for most players this system seemed unintuitive and inconvenient, so we redesigned it to be more familiar. Now all the choices you make are saved in the local save file, and right after the end of the chapter you need to choose the next one to read in a special menu (at the moment you can only finish the Prologue). We recommend you to delete old save files as they may not work now. Also Chinese translation are almost done and will be available for you in a couple of weeks. Spanish one will come a bit later, no exact dates for now.

[ 2023-08-19 17:01:07 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello, fellow Touhou fans! It's time to tell you about our future plans! According to our conservative estimates, the next update will be 3-4 times larger than the current one. In many ways, its visual component is mostly ready, because events in different versions will take place in the same locations where they took place in the old version of the game (the one that was released not on Steam). The problem lies solely in the amount of text: "3 times more" means "3 times more fundamentally different content", because Reimu and Co. will have completely different guesses about what is happening in different variants of the plot. And only the English translation of this entire text can take around 1000-2000 USD, which is quite a lot for us. But we do not despair - Touhou fans from other countries have contacted us and expressed their desire to participate in the translation of the game into their native languages. And now they are bravely translating entire game into Spanish, Portuguese, two versions of Chinese (traditional and simplified) and Japanese (very slowly). We hope that the increase in audience reach will bring us enough money so that we can continue to develop the game on a free basis, but if this still does not happen, then we will have to switch to a paid basis now. The Prologue will remain free, but access to all further content, including the Destitute Chapter, will be through paid DLC. So in the near future our main goal will be to promote the game and gradually draw the necessary visual for the next update. After the release of all language packs, we will decide how successful the PR was and when exactly you should expect release of the new update.

[ 2023-07-20 14:21:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello again! Have you checked out our latest update yet? Did you like the musical accompaniment? If you did, then we are happy to inform you that from now on you can buy all this wonderful music in normal and high quality! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2505610/Touhou_Fading_Illusion_OST_vol2/ Also, in honor of the release of the second part of the soundtrack, a 20% discount will be set for the first part for the next two weeks. Feel free to buy it too! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2216760/Touhou_Fading_Illusion_OST_vol1/

[ 2023-07-12 09:19:42 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello friends! Today, we're happy to announce that the first day of the Destitute Chapter is finally complete, reviewed, and released to the public! You can enjoy it right now and completely free! New content awaits you:

• 1-3 hours of reading (depending on your desire to see all new scenes).
• 2 choices leading to 3 different outcomes.
• 6 new characters with their own detailed sprites.
• 10 new CGs (some have variations).
• 13 new tracks.

Apart from that, we added a gallery, slightly changed the interface and fixed minor bugs that remained from the previous version. If you like the update or have any comments, feel free to share your impressions in a review or recommend our game to your friends. You can also support the development of the game on Boosty or by purchasing game's OST. We are very grateful to all those who supported us or are just about to do so! Our game is free, so we wouldn't have been able to finish the update without all your support! Given that we've been a little behind schedule with this update, it's possible that the next update will also be finished later than we originally planned (late 2023). Some time later, we will write about our future plans, but if you are interested in watching the development progress in more detail, then I suggest subscribing to us on Twitter. See you and hope you enjoy! [previewyoutube=ZLX5tmgngMQ;full][/previewyoutube]

[ 2023-07-07 12:03:16 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi guys! Today we are happy to inform you that the first update of our game is almost ready! The first day of the Destitute Chapter awaits you, the story of which will be presented from the point of view of Reimu and the characters close to her. Already in the first day there will be two choices that will lead you to one of three radically different outcomes, which will later result in a significant plot branching. Yeah, we were a little late with it and deviated from the originally set schedules, but if you are subscribed to our socials (by the way, highly recommend you to subscribe), you may have heard about the translation problems that we suddenly faced back in early May. However, despite of everything, we still finished our work! So stock up on some yummies and wait - we need only a few more days to check everything! See you and hope you enjoy!

[ 2023-06-30 18:40:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello friends! Hope you all have a good start of the year! Today I would like to tell you about the choice system in our game. As you may have already read in the description of the game, we promise you completely different experience when you play the game again. Here is a rough demo of how choices will affect the plot:
As you can see, events will depend not only on the choices themselves, but also on the order in which the chapters are read. Some choices will affect only the events of the current chapter, some will only affect the events of one of the other chapters, some will affect the events of all chapters, and some will override the consequences of the choices made in other chapters. For example, the choice you make in the Prologue regarding Rinnosuke's actions will give rise to two completely different beginnings of his chapter and will affect the entire subsequent plot. Here is what all the routes look like at the moment, described by scenes:
At the moment, the degree of their elaboration varies, but in the Destitute chapter (the leftmost branch), on which we are currently working, three different outcomes can take place and some additional scenes can be found, which, among other things, result from the choices made in other chapters. As for the development, now everything is going as scheduled, no shifts in terms are planned yet. As soon as the release date of the update becomes clear, we will definitely tell you. So, we'll keep you posted and you don't lose sight of us, okay? See you later!

[ 2023-01-15 15:15:01 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello fellow Touhou fans! Today we are ready to present you a plan for further action!
By spring, we plan to finish the first day of Reimu's chapter (in the game it will be called "Destitute Chapter"). It will take approximately 3-4 hours to read (with all the variations) and will feature two choices leading to three different outcomes, all of which require text, visuals and music to be completed. Besides, if there are enough funds, the game will be translated into Japanese or Chinese (or both languages). The key word here is "funds" because our team does not have a full-time translator. Unfortunately, amateurs cannot be relied upon in this matter, because the text of the novel is its main element, and people without proper experience can turn it into a chaotic something that no native speaker will read. Accordingly, funds are needed to pay for the services of professionals. Therefore to my calculations, the translation into English (without which we will not be able to release the update) costs about 400-500$, and into Japanese - about 1000$ (because the Prologue is not translated into Japanese). The numbers are a bit too big for us, so we turn to you and remind you of the opportunity to support us on Boosty. Of course, we do not rule out the possibility that there may be a foreign Touhou fan who is a native speaker of the target language, but we should not count on this. Better safe than sorry. We also remind you about our Twitter, where we will post finished works.

[ 2022-12-18 17:22:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello! In your feedback, you wrote to us that the text in the game is a bit difficult to read, and also pointed out some typos, so we quickly fixed everything. In v1.0.1 we:

• Slightly increased the text size in the main text window.
• Made text boxes twice as less transparent.
• Fixed some small flaws in text.

The difference is like:

Yes, the changes are minor, but we just wanted to say that your feedback is very important to us, so feel free to leave it and help us make the game better

[ 2022-12-08 19:48:34 CET ] [ Original post ]