Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time reaches new sales milestone

More than a decade on from its predecessor’s release, Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time launched late last month to near immediate success – selling half a million copies in its first few days. Since then, momentum has yet to slow down, with the game having surpassed another milestone on its journey to 1 million units sold.

Making the announcement on Twitter, the team at Level5 wrote: “Over 800,000 Copies Sold Worldwide! Fantasy Life i has officially sold over 800,000 copies worldwide!”

Interestingly, and in a rather uncommon practice, the studio also offered projected sales figures, adding “Thanks to everyone's support, we might even hit 1 million copies by the end of June. Join players around the world and enjoy your own kind of slow life!”

For context, Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time arrived to relatively little fanfare on the 21st of May, however quickly gained traction almost immediately after – reaching a peak concurrent player count of 65k on Steam by the 25th.

Though we never received official sales figures for the original Fantasy Life, the game was confirmed to have sold over 300,000 units in Japan by April 2013 – 4 months on from launch. That said, international figures were never revealed following its global release in 2014, and so it is unknown exactly how well the first game performed.

Given the fact however that reviews for the sequel are sitting high above the 3DS’ release (and that the title is continuing to sell consistently ahead of the Switch 2 version’s arrival), is it safe to say that with 800,000 copies already sold Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time is a major success.

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