Touhou: Fading Illusion News

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.

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!

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.

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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.

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.