Update []: Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time has now sold over 800,000 units worldwide, which means it added 300,000 units over the past week. Level-5 now says it expects to top the one million units milestone by the end of June.
This is a remarkable success for Level-5, who’d been in the wilderness a little bit over the past few years.
We still don’t know exactly how well the game is selling on the PS5, but the Famitsu’s launch sales estimates for Japanese retail pegged Sony’s system at about 10k units while the Switch version topped 80k units. That’s to be expected in Japan, of course, and only takes into account physical sales.
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This game is doing really well on PC as well, though, so we’d suspect PS5 is only contributing a small share to its overall total.
Original Story: Fantasy Life was, previously, a Nintendo 3DS exclusive – but making its long-awaited successor multiformat appears to be working out wonderfully for Level-5.
On the legendary developer’s long (long) awaited return – seriously, it hasn’t properly shipped a game apart from Megaton Musashi in over six years – it’s confirmed that Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time has topped 500,000 units.
While sales information is scattered between platforms, we know the game has attracted 60k peak concurrent players on Steam this weekend, which puts it comfortably ahead of other big recent releases like DOOM: The Dark Ages.
In loosely related news, the Japanese studio’s announced that it will be adding free DLC to the title at a later date to celebrate its global success. This will include fresh recipes and new content designed to make use of “high rarity weapons”.