Cozy Game Reaches Another Major Sales Milestone

Recently, this game dropped: Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time. It’s cozy and kinda exploded, selling over 800,000 copies globally. Launched on May 21, this baby’s out on PC, Switch, PS5, PS4, and the fancy Xbox X/S. Level-5 made it and Nintendo’s pushing it like a hot new mixtape.

So, sequels after, what, a decade plus? Not typical, right? But here we are. The original Fantasy Life was kinda a niche thing, stuck on the Nintendo 3DS and mostly hung out in Japan. Fast forward to now, and its sibling decided to party worldwide across all kinds of tech. That multi-platform move? Apparently genius, ’cause those sales numbers are wild.

Anyway — oh, right — Twitter went nuts when Fantasy Life hit that 800k mark. Twelve days. Just twelve. The devs are beaming, and why not? They’re gunning for a million sales by the end of June. If they snag that, it’s a pretty big deal, especially for a game that’s been catching dust for a while.

Okay, let’s talk numbers. In May, it zipped to half a million in, what, three days? That’s like 150k a day. Crazy. But then pace slowed, and hey, that happens. Now it’s hiking towards a million, getting close to the 2012 original’s numbers, which, fun fact, managed 1.11 million by end of 2022, and that was a marathon, not a sprint.

Speaking of hype boosts, watch out for June 5. The game’s jumping over to the Switch 2 right as it launches. Who knows, that might be the nudge it needs to smash that million mark. Or maybe not! Life’s unpredictable like that. Anyway, fingers crossed for those guys.