D3 Publisher revealed that Omega Labyrinth Life, the fan-service heavy dungeon crawler that released on Nintendo Switch and PC, along with a censored version on PS4 called Labyrinth Life, has moved over 50,000 units. In addition to that, the third-person shooter from Shade Inc., Bullet Girls Phantasia, managed to move more than 100,000 copies.
Gematsu picked up the news from a small infographic shared by D3 Publisher celebrating their sales milestones for their games.
The tweet was published on the official Omega Labyrinth account on February 20th, 2020.
“Omega Labyrinth Life” has sold over 50,000 units worldwide! Thanks to all fans around the world!!!
To commemorate the worldwide sales of 50,000 units, we are starting a Twitter campaign to give away 5 #Steam (PC version) keys for #OmegaLabyrinthLife to the winners. pic.twitter.com/AfgqWlF9BO
— オメガラビリンス公式 (@OmegaLabyrinth) February 21, 2020
Those are great numbers for budget-priced games that received very little in the way of marketing.
The game was originally unveiled all the way back in fall of 2018, when D3 Publisher revealed that after Sony cancelled the release of Omega Labyrinth Z on the PS4, they were going to try their luck on the Nintendo Switch.
So as to not completely leave the PlayStation market devoid of a title, they also had a heavily censored version of the game known as Labyrinth Life made for the PS4.
However, when both games finally released in August of 2019, the Nintendo Switch version sold three times more than the PS4 version, all thanks to not cutting or removing content.
Later on D3 Publisher teamed up with Matrix to port the game over to PC during the latter half of 2019, and Omega Labyrinth Life eventually hit Steam on December 10th, 2019.
According to Steam Spy, the game managed to move several thousand copies, thus indicating that a large portion of their sales is still occupied by the Switch.
It essentially indicates that there’s still a market available for DRPGs featuring copious amounts of fan-service.
The real success story, though, is Bullet Girls Phantasia, which managed to move more than 100,000 copies. That’s very impressive.
Shade Inc’s third-person shooter has around the same number of engagement on Steam, according to Steam spy, moving thousands of copies, but just under 20,000.
Majority of the sales for the game come from the PS Vita and PlayStation 4 in this case, showing that despite Sony’s aggressive censorship policies still being in play, there are still a lot of loyalists willing to buy and support games for the system.
Until D3 Publisher can grow their presence and marketing on the other platforms, it looks like they’ll have a hard time weening the their games away from the dedicated fanbase of PlayStation users.
(Thanks for the news tip Hakase)