Level-5 announced today that Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time has sold more than 1 million units. The “slow-life RPG” was released on May 21 on all major current and last-gen platforms. The game marks a bit of a return to form for the Japanese gamemaker, which is best known for its Professor Layton and Ni no Kuni series and hasn’t had a major release globally since 2018’s Ni No Kuni: Revenant Kingdom.
The milestone announcement also introduced a new patch that brings a few new features to the game, including support for further camera distance, an auto lock-on feature for combat, and graphics improvements for the Switch 2 version.
The original Fantasy Life was released in 2012 for the Nintendo 3DS and offered a slower, more laid-back approach to the JRPG formula. Featuring the low-stakes, incremental growth of Animal Crossing and an open-ended job system more akin to an MMORPG than your typical Japanese RPG fare, it was a unique experience that worked well on Nintendo’s portable console. While the game didn’t find much commercial success, it did eventually develop a cult following both in and outside of Japan.
