{"id":43534,"date":"2025-01-31T12:19:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T03:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=43534"},"modified":"2025-01-31T12:20:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T03:20:02","slug":"wizardry-variants-daphne-performs-strongly-on-mobile-ahead-of-steam-release-exceeding-developers-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/wizardry-variants-daphne-performs-strongly-on-mobile-ahead-of-steam-release-exceeding-developers-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizardry Variants Daphne performs strongly on mobile ahead of Steam release, exceeding developer\u2019s expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Wizardry Variants Daphne<\/strong> has exceeded developer Drecom\u2019s expectations, making 2.1 billion yen since its October 2024 launch on smartphones. A PC (Steam) version of the game is currently in the works.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally created by the American game company Sir-Tech in the early 80s, the Wizardry series played a huge role in shaping the RPG genre of video games. The series also became very popular in Japan. Japanese developer Drecom has owned the Wizardry IP since 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"564\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250131-43534-002.jpg\" alt=\"Wizardry opening movie\" class=\"wp-image-43540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250131-43534-002.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250131-43534-002-380x179.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250131-43534-002-768x361.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest title in the long-running series, Wizardry Variants Daphne, launched for smartphones on October 15, 2024. The game combines Wizardry\u2019s classic dungeon-crawling gameplay with a dev team of big names. The music is by Final Fantasy Tactics and XII composer Hitoshi Sakamoto, with Fire Emblem\u2019s Yusuke Kozaki handling the character design, and Katsuya Terada (of Zelda and Tekken fame) designing the monsters. Wizardry Variants Daphne&#8217;s development received <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/wizardry-developer-receives-500-million-yen-investment-from-the-japanese-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">500 million yen in funding<\/a> from the Japan\u2019s government\u2019s Development Bank of Japan (DBJ).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250131-43534-001.jpeg\" alt=\"Wizardry Variants Daphne party campfire\" class=\"wp-image-43541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250131-43534-001.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250131-43534-001-380x214.jpeg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250131-43534-001-768x432.jpeg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Drecom\u2019s financial results for the first 9 months of the fiscal year ending March 2025 indicate that Wizardry Variants Daphne accounted for around a quarter of their overall net sales of 8.2 billion yen (source: <a href=\"https:\/\/gamebiz.jp\/news\/399975\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GameBiz)<\/a>. Although the game is free-to-play, it has in-app purchases.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the new Wizardry game\u2019s runaway success, Drecom\u2019s consolidated financial results showed a total loss of 823 million yen. Perhaps the much-anticipated Steam version of the game (release date TBA) will help them get back into the black. Drecom intends to market the PC version of the game predominantly to players outside of Japan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drecom\u2019s financial results for the first 9 months of the fiscal year ending in March 2025 were as follows:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-palette-color-5-background-color has-background\">Net Sales: 8.2 billion yen (up 7.4% year-on-year)\u00a0<br>Operating loss: 26 million yen (789 million yen profit recorded in the previous year\uff09 <br>Recurring loss: 78 million yen (729 million yen profit in the previous year) \u00a0<br>Net loss: 823 million yen (97 million yen profit in the previous year)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wizardry Variants Daphne is available now on <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wizardry-variants-daphne\/id1663423521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iOS<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=jp.co.drecom.wizardry.daphne&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Android<\/a> (free-to-play with in-app purchases). A PC (Steam) version was announced last October, release date TBA.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wizardry Variants Daphne has exceeded developer Drecom\u2019s expectations, making 2.1 billion yen since its October 2024 launch on smartphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":43539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-43534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wizardry Variants Daphne performs strongly on mobile ahead of Steam release, exceeding developer\u2019s expectations - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Wizardry Variants Daphne has exceeded developer Drecom\u2019s expectations, making 2.1 billion yen since its October 2024 launch on smartphones.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/wizardry-variants-daphne-performs-strongly-on-mobile-ahead-of-steam-release-exceeding-developers-expectations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wizardry Variants Daphne performs strongly on mobile ahead of Steam release, exceeding developer\u2019s expectations - 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