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

Introduction

Labyrinth of Touhou Tri, released 28 January 2026 by solo developer Nise-Eikoku Studio, is the third entry in a long-running Touhou-inspired dungeon-crawling RPG series, arriving roughly a decade after its predecessor to a fanbase that had waited for it specifically. It sits Very Positive across a full sample of around 612 reviews, and reading widely through them reveals a release that produces some of the most extreme playtime devotion this review has seen anywhere in this genre.

A combat system reviewers treat as genuinely exceptional

The clearest, most consistent thread in this sample is how specifically and repeatedly reviewers praise the combat itself. Multiple reviewers independently call the game's ATB-based, 12-character active-party system among the best implementations of turn-based combat they've experienced in any RPG, several specifically praising how skill trees let the same character feel meaningfully different at higher levels. Playtime figures back that praise up in a way this review treats as unusually credible: multiple reviewers report hundreds of hours, and at least one reviewer specifically reports over five thousand. This review reads that combination, specific mechanical praise paired with extreme, voluntarily reported time investment, as strong evidence the core combat loop genuinely rewards the depth reviewers describe.

Dungeon puzzles reviewers compare to sokoban, and generally admire

Beyond combat, this review found reviewers repeatedly and specifically praising the game's dungeon exploration, several directly comparing its logic puzzles to sokoban-style block puzzles and describing them as genuinely engaging rather than padding between fights. Multiple reviewers specifically credit visual and structural improvements to dungeon design over the prior game, several separately noting treasure placement and hidden-path design reward careful exploration without becoming needlessly obscure.

A documented episode of the developer listening, then reversing course

This review found something specific and unusually well documented worth reporting directly: a patch identified by reviewers as version 1.009 significantly simplified many of the game's dungeon puzzles, reportedly in response to complaints from some players. That change provoked a sustained, specific backlash from a large share of this sample's most invested reviewers, many directly citing the patch number and describing the change as gutting a core part of what made the series distinct. The developer subsequently reversed the change, reviewers dating the reversal to version 1.011, and multiple reviewers specifically edited their own reviews afterward to reflect it, several using variations of "we are so back." This review treats that documented back-and-forth, not as controversy for its own sake, but as genuine, specific evidence of a developer actively responding to sustained, substantive community feedback rather than making unilateral changes and moving on.

A specific, repeated performance complaint

Set against the praise above, this review found a specific, widely repeated technical complaint: performance issues that multiple reviewers say are surprising for what is largely a 2D game. Reviewers independently describe frame drops, UI stutter, and unusually high CPU and GPU load, one specifically reporting hardware temperatures climbing to levels that triggered their laptop's safety throttling during ordinary play. This review found at least one detailed reviewer noting much of this can be mitigated by manually switching from integrated to dedicated GPU rendering and enabling VSync, a workaround not clearly signposted by the game itself, while others report the issue persisting in specific scenes and dungeon floors even on capable systems after patches that reviewers say fixed it elsewhere.

Dense text and a real difficulty barrier

This review also found more specific, smaller complaints worth naming directly. Multiple reviewers criticise the in-game text formatting, particularly item and skill descriptions presented as large, dense blocks that several say make it harder than necessary to extract relevant information during play. Reviewers are also consistent and specific in warning that this is not a casual or beginner friendly RPG, several explicitly stating the game rewards or requires consulting external guides and wikis to build effective parties, a genuine barrier worth naming plainly rather than treating as an unqualified strength.

Story improved, but still secondary to systems

This review found reviewers specifically and consistently placing story below combat and exploration in importance, several describing narrative pacing as a step down from other aspects of the game even while crediting real improvement over the previous entry. This review reads that as a reasonable, specific trade-off reviewers themselves are making consciously rather than a hidden flaw, consistent with a genre where mechanical depth is typically the primary draw.

Why this review scores the game strongly despite real technical issues

It's worth being direct about how this review weighs exceptional, extremely well-evidenced combat and puzzle design against a real, specific and repeated performance complaint. The depth here is genuine and unusually well corroborated by extreme playtime figures across a wide, independent sample, and the developer's documented willingness to reverse a substantive design change under community pressure is a meaningfully positive signal about ongoing support. The performance complaint is real and specific enough to weigh seriously, but reviewers themselves describe partial workarounds and improvement over time rather than an unaddressed, worsening problem. This review scores Labyrinth of Touhou Tri as a genuinely exceptional dungeon crawler for the audience it's built for, with a real, current performance caveat worth taking seriously before buying.

Final Verdict

Labyrinth of Touhou Tri delivers dungeon-crawling combat and puzzle design that a large, deeply invested sample of reviewers rate among the best in the genre, backed by a documented case of the developer directly reversing course after listening to sustained community feedback. What holds this score down is a specific, repeated performance complaint and dense, occasionally unwieldy text presentation. Strongly recommended for dungeon-crawler and tactical RPG fans prepared to engage seriously with its systems.