{"id":1876149,"date":"2026-04-10T14:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T11:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1876149"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T11:52:16","slug":"after-selling-over-1-5m-copies-and-stealing-most-of-my-summer-fantasy-life-i-is-coming-to-mobile-with-cross-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1876149","title":{"rendered":"After selling over 1.5m copies and stealing most of my summer, Fantasy Life i is coming to mobile with cross-save"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n       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article-styling\">\n<p>\nFantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time was one of last year&#8217;s most pleasant surprises, successfully managing to suck up most of my summer with its brilliant mix of Animal Crossing-style life sim and swashbuckling RPG adventure. And now it&#8217;s coming to iOS and Android with cross-save, meaning you can take your existing games with you on-the-go.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDeveloped by Professor Layton studio Level-5, Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time is the second outing for the Fantasy Life series, which originated on Nintendo 3DS all the way back in 2012. Despite almost a decade between instalments, the fundamentals remain the same, meaning you&#8217;re essentially playing as a classic RPG hero &#8211; facing the usual world-ending calamity &#8211; but one who needs to get a job to pave their way. Or jobs as the case may be.\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Fantasy Life i Mobile \u2013 Teaser Trailer\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qWMeg0kL-LY?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/qWMeg0kL-LY\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Fantasy Life i Mobile \u2013 Teaser Trailer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Here&#8217;s a tease for Fantasy Life i on mobile.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qWMeg0kL-LY\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\nIn Fantasy Life i, time and space are wonky, and you&#8217;ll be bounding all over the place. Back in the past, you learn new trades, becoming a trainee mercenary, perhaps, or a paladin, a hunter, a magician, an angler, a miner, a farmer, a woodcutter, a cook, a blacksmith, a carpenter, and more. Or &#8211; more likely &#8211; a whole bunch of these things. And as you improve, you&#8217;ll learn crucial skills that&#8217;ll help during your adventure. To fight monsters! To grow food! To craft exotic new weapons! To mine for the ore to create exotic new weapons! Etc.\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\nThe list of activities is vast, but the game itself is even vaster. The past plays host to numerous islands full of friends to make and dungeons to explore &#8211; or you can pop through a portal to explore a massive open world full of enchanted objects you can turn back into humans who&#8217;ll join your party and fight by your side. And over in the present, there&#8217;s a whole Animal Crossing-style side game going on, where you&#8217;ll build a village for your new friends to live in. So you can probably start to see why its more-ish loops of crafting and scavenging and levelling and building and adventuring hoovered up so much of my time on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/platforms\/switch-2\">Switch 2<\/a>. And given Fantasy Life i had sold 1.5m copies by the time December came around, I doubt I was the only one.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhich brings us back to Level-5&#8217;s announcement of an Android and iOS release for Fantasy Life i. It&#8217;s arriving as a premium title rather than a micro-transaction-riddled free-to-play effort, and all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/rpg-fantasy-life-i-gets-roguelike-mode-in-free-new-year-update\">DLC and updates available on other platforms<\/a> are included. Additionally, Level-5 says it features touch controls and full controller support. Even better, cross-saves and cross-play are supported, meaning you can hop between platforms, taking your current progress to the beach, office loo, or other destination of your choosing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe only thing we don&#8217;t have right now is a launch date, but Level-5 is aiming to bring Fantasy Life i to iOS and Android this &#8220;summer&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>\nFantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time was one of last year&#8217;s most pleasant surprises, successfully managing to suck up most of my summer with its brilliant mix of Animal Crossing-style life sim and swashbuckling RPG adventure. And now it&#8217;s coming to iOS and Android with cross-save, meaning you can take your existing games with you on-the-go.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDeveloped by Professor Layton studio Level-5, Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time is the second outing for the Fantasy Life series, which originated on Nintendo 3DS all the way back in 2012. Despite almost a decade between instalments, the fundamentals remain the same, meaning you&#8217;re essentially playing as a classic RPG hero &#8211; facing the usual world-ending calamity &#8211; but one who needs to get a job to pave their way. Or jobs as the case may be.\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Fantasy Life i Mobile \u2013 Teaser Trailer\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qWMeg0kL-LY?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/qWMeg0kL-LY\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Fantasy Life i Mobile \u2013 Teaser Trailer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Here&#8217;s a tease for Fantasy Life i on mobile.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qWMeg0kL-LY\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\nIn Fantasy Life i, time and space are wonky, and you&#8217;ll be bounding all over the place. Back in the past, you learn new trades, becoming a trainee mercenary, perhaps, or a paladin, a hunter, a magician, an angler, a miner, a farmer, a woodcutter, a cook, a blacksmith, a carpenter, and more. Or &#8211; more likely &#8211; a whole bunch of these things. And as you improve, you&#8217;ll learn crucial skills that&#8217;ll help during your adventure. To fight monsters! To grow food! To craft exotic new weapons! To mine for the ore to create exotic new weapons! Etc.\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\nThe list of activities is vast, but the game itself is even vaster. The past plays host to numerous islands full of friends to make and dungeons to explore &#8211; or you can pop through a portal to explore a massive open world full of enchanted objects you can turn back into humans who&#8217;ll join your party and fight by your side. And over in the present, there&#8217;s a whole Animal Crossing-style side game going on, where you&#8217;ll build a village for your new friends to live in. So you can probably start to see why its more-ish loops of crafting and scavenging and levelling and building and adventuring hoovered up so much of my time on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/platforms\/switch-2\">Switch 2<\/a>. And given Fantasy Life i had sold 1.5m copies by the time December came around, I doubt I was the only one.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhich brings us back to Level-5&#8217;s announcement of an Android and iOS release for Fantasy Life i. It&#8217;s arriving as a premium title rather than a micro-transaction-riddled free-to-play effort, and all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/rpg-fantasy-life-i-gets-roguelike-mode-in-free-new-year-update\">DLC and updates available on other platforms<\/a> are included. Additionally, Level-5 says it features touch controls and full controller support. Even better, cross-saves and cross-play are supported, meaning you can hop between platforms, taking your current progress to the beach, office loo, or other destination of your choosing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe only thing we don&#8217;t have right now is a launch date, but Level-5 is aiming to bring Fantasy Life i to iOS and Android this &#8220;summer&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time After selling over 1.5m copies and stealing most of my summer, Fantasy Life i is coming to mobile with cross-save Lauching this summer. 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