Developer Studio Zero and publisher Atlus have announced that Metaphor: ReFantazio sales have already reached an impressive milestone, even though the game has only been out for a handful of hours.
Per a Japanese press release (for which we're using machine translation), physical shipments and digital sales of the game have already passed the one million mark, which is a pretty impressive point to be at this early in the game's life cycle.
Metaphor: ReFantazio also boasts the highest Steam concurrent player count of any Atlus game in history; the game is currently sitting at 60,103 players on Steam (at time of writing), which handily beats the publisher's next most popular game Persona 3 Reload (45,002).
In the press release, Atlus also points to Metaphor: ReFantazio's strong critical reception. The game is currently sitting at a 92% rating on OpenCritic, with 99% of aggregated critics awarding it a positive score.
Metaphor: ReFantazio's strong performance is especially impressive given that it's a completely new IP; though it shares similarities with the Persona series (including a publisher and several former developers), it's not an entry in that franchise, so its strong sales will likely be encouraging for Atlus.
If you're not familiar with Metaphor: ReFantazio, it's a new turn-based RPG from Atlus and developer Studio Zero, which counts several former Persona alumni among its ranks.
The game features a mixture of turn-based and real-time combat, as well as systems that will be familiar to Atlus fans, including social elements, time-sensitive events, and more.
You can check out Metaphor: ReFantazio right now on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox Series X|S.
If you need any further incentive to do so, you can read our very own Andrew Stretch's glowing review of the game here, in which he praises its "deep and thematic" narrative and "satisfying" evolution of the Persona series' signature combat style.
