Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend similar games & best alternatives

Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2022

Should you play it?

Welcome to Eientei, combine multiple colors of mana to build your ideal deck, duel with gensokyo girls, and chase back the mysterious moon treasure. Also, enjoy the unpredictable Roguelike with fantasy Danmaku!

What works

  • Deep and creative deck building
  • High replayability and variety
  • Engaging strategic gameplay
  • Excellent art and music
  • Immersive fantasy setting

Things to keep in mind

  • Early access with incomplete story and characters
  • Some balance issues and difficulty spikes
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features
  • Long run times
  • Higher price point than similar games

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • SpellRogue

  • Monster Train 2

  • NEOVERSE

  • Deepest Chamber: Resurrection

  • Breachway

  • Breach Wanderers

More leadership-focused

Games that feels like Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend but with more leadership over others

  • Gordian Quest

  • Arcanium: Rise of Akhan

  • Chrono Ark

  • Starless Abyss

  • Nowhere Prophet

  • LABYRINTH OF TOUHOU - GENSOKYO AND THE HEAVEN-PIERCING TREE

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Creativity, Continuation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership.

Last update: 03/08/2026