A downloadable game for Windows

A Touhou Project fangame by Team Urban Magic, and the first fully-fledged game
to use the Touhou Danmakufu ph3sx engine.

Features of this game include:

  • 4 playable characters: the usual pair of incident resolvers
    plus two familiar, yet unexpected, protagonists.
  • The usual 6-stage story mode, along with an Extra mode
    and some bonus unlockable content.
  • A soundtrack containing over 20 songs, put together by Frogmask
    and Spectral Nexus, with a couple of guest stars in the mix.
  • Sheep?!

We hope you enjoy this rainier-than-usual Touhou experience.
We spent a lot of time on it (really).

Also! The game's soundtrack is now available for downloading on this page.
Feel free to listen to your favorite songs from the game on repeat,
but don't forget to check out the bonus tracks at the end of the album, as well.

Touhou Project is © Team Shanghai Alice.
This game is a derivative work with no affiliation with Team Shanghai Alice.

Changelog

  • v1.00a - 2021-05-31
    • Initial full release.
  • v1.01a - 2021-11-06
    • Fixed replay desync issues.
    • Increased the size of bullets and numerous other improvements to visibility.
    • Added options: "Colorblind Mode", "Item Opacity", and "Background Opacity".
    • Added the ability to start Stage Practice from various points in the stage.
    • Improved resource loading time. (Faster loading time on Retry)
    • Fixed controller issues with Hecatia.
    • Rebalanced some patterns.
    • Rebalanced player shots and spells damage.
    • Minor changes to scoring.
    • Improved visual effects.
    • Fixed some graphical effects not working properly on devices using AMD chips.
  • v1.01b - 2022-05-16
    • Fixed a game-breaking error at the end of a certain ending sequence. (For real now.)
    • Fixed spell practice displaying the wrong stage title under certain circumstances.
    • Fixed Last Word replays. Replays created in v1.01a should work now.
StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows
Rating
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(31 total ratings)
AuthorTeam Urban Magic
GenreShooter
Tags2D, Bullet Hell, Fangame, Singleplayer, Touhou

Download

Download
Sapphire Panlogism v1.01b 316 MB
Download
Sapphire Panlogism Original Soundtrack 362 MB

Install instructions

Simply extract the game to a place that makes sense and run th_sp.exe.
If you wish to change the settings first, run config.exe.

In order to transfer your save data from v1.00a to v1.01b, simply copy the script/data/ folder from v1.00a to v1.01b, overwriting it if it already exists in the latter version.

If you are using v1.01a, we strongly recommend downloading
the v1.01b hotfix patch listed below the main download. Simply unzip the archive in
the game's root folder and overwrite any files that were changed.

Development log

Comments

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very cool. like the grandma mother.



btw. screw Padma.

d3dx9_43.dll エラーのせいでずっと起動できなくて悲しいです

どなたかど教えてください

お願いします

it keeps giving me access denied errors

Aside from the major problem, this game is amazing!

The concepts for the characters, story, and gameplay are really well-made, and the graphics give it a great mix of looking like an official Touhou game and a fanmade Touhou game.

The game gives a VERY BIG vibe of Touhou 12: UFO, as the spells are hard to deal with at first and usually jumpscares you like how UFO is played for the first time.

The only main problem is, well, the obvious lag-- disabling the graphics and all makes it look dull and boring, and doesn't give it life.


Overall, I'd rate this game a ★★★✬☆. I hope you guys can find a way to fix the lag, don't give up!

it gave me d3dx9_43.dll error what do i do now?
also idk if u can still see it but my prev comment was just me expressing excitement, i deleted not to clog up the comment section

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I LOVE THIS GAME!!!!

the ost so good!!

Thank you for patching the ending bug, I initially thought it was a coincidence before it happened a second time

sapphire panlogism is prob the best touhou fangame I have played, really good job!! <3 its a shame this game was a one-off bc id love to see more stuff worked on by this team, but thank you for your time and passion !!

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THIS GAME IS FUCKING AMAZING!

This game is very well made.

I gave the game a run, Very faithful and challenging and I love the rain system.

Also these new chars and patterns are amazing.

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The graphics constantly freeze up in fullscreen mode, making it unplayable...

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:baldma:

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sapphire pansexualism

Besides the visibility issues (pls fix the pastel color bullets they sort of blend in with the background) it's a very good game :) i love ummu so much

this is one of the best touhou games i've ever played but here's two thing i hate about it:

1.the lag, i know my pc isn't a beast but still the spellcards renders the game literally unplayable

2.the rain effect on the beginning of stage 1 (the one that fills the whole screen and not the background). not only it causes so much lag but it's also ugly yeah you can disable it in the settings BUT that also turns the backgrounds into a static image which isn't cool at all

Would love a release of the soundtrack as a standalone album! Excellent work!

anyone knows how to fix the screen size. loll. also, the game is cool. very interesting characters like hecatia and shou. nice work. Its also kinda hard. just what I wanted. (least that's for me)

You can use CTR+Enter to go into full screen

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Does anyone know how to fix the 0xc000007b error?

Niether can I, sorry for that...

However, I found in internet that can be fixed by intalling some sorce of visual software or something, I think what I'd seen was C++... well, I'm not really sure. Unfortunately, even installing that thing, I couldn't run the game, what a pitty.

nvm fixed it, I just downloaded directx

really nice game! hopefully some updates are coming soon that improve bullet visibility, but this game is pretty generous with resources so its not even that annoying during normal play

The droplet system is a bit annoying since the fairies turn blue after a moment, and the fact that they can’t be picked up by the poc is inconvenient. The stage 5 boss’s attacks are extremely blind-run killing, and I wish they were telegraphed a bit better. Also, my game crashed when I reached the final boss’s finale, which hadn’t happened when I tried clearing the game with continues.

The Itch app won't let me install it? 

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My game crashed after stage 5 boss dialogue :( Anyone else had the same issue?

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Yes, my sister had the same issue.

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I downloaded the game's file and all but whenever I try to launch the game it crashes immediately and I can't play, if you have a solution I'll gladly take it, because I already tried to reinstall the game :(

I love it, but for some reason whenever something cancels a bullet or i bombed, It's super laggy, like 0.5fps. It might be my problem so i guess just give me tips to improve it, either way I really love It, the ost, the desifn, a lot of it. Very Awesome!

This is great!

That was really nice.

yoooo very awesome

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Very solid game with great gameplay. I like it's original mecanic while keeping the lore of the series. Simple yet fun to play-!

I cant get passed the language screen, I guess i found the hardest level :(

The final boss theme... luvs, absolutely stunning! Easily one of the best fanmade touhou games I've played.

fantastic -ign

omg, this is epic!

HOLY

I tried to do a fangame on GM2 2 years ago, it was definitely possible despite the lack of support for 3D, though it was A LOT of work to make it look good.. like this! congratulations, you should be selling this game on Steam!

if you want take a look of my abandoned (but still a novel idea!) Touhou game

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FINALLY! housama time!