Summary
One recently released cozy game,Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time, has already sold more than 800,000 copies all over the world since its launch on May 21. Developed by Level-5 and published by Nintendo,Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Timeis a life simulator currently available for Switch, PC, PS5, PS4, and Xbox Series X/S.
Sequels getting released over a decade after the original are far from the norm, but that was the case forFantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time, which came out almost 13 years afterFantasy Life. While the first game was a Nintendo 3DS exclusive that was initially only sold in Japan, its follow-up took a very different approach when it rolled out last month, going instead for a simultaneous global release across several different platforms. Naturally, theFantasy Lifesequel’s multi-platform launchallowed it to reach a broader audience, which now seems to be significantly helping its sales.
On Twitter, the official Fantasy Life series account announced thatFantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Timehad crossed the 800,000 mark in worldwide sales. Impressively, this update came barely 12 days after the game’s arrival on PC and consoles. Bolstered by the rapidly growing numbers, theFantasy Lifedeveloperalso expressed its confidence in hitting one million copies sold before the end of June. In the event that the feat is achieved on the day predicted, it would mean that the casual RPG moved a million units in just over a month—which, for a niche IP making its return after a long time, could certainly be seen as commendable.
Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time Races Past 800,000 Copies Sold
In May,Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Timehad reached half a million salesin an impressive three days of launch, averaging more than 150,000 units sold each day. Noticeably, adding another 300,000 copies to that total has taken longer, but such a gradual slowdown is something that is generally expected for every game that comes out. What’s worth noting here is that the sequel now has to sell about 200,000 copies more to get close to the lifetime sales of the 2012 original, which sold 1.11 million units by December 2022, as reportedly seen in the 2023 CESA Games White Paper.
In just a few days, the Nintendo-published game can be expected to receive a big boost in its goal of selling a million copies. That’s becauseFantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Timeis scheduled to land on the Switch 2as a launch title on June 5. However, only time will tell if this helps the simulation game reach the next milestone in accordance with the developer’s estimate stated above.
