Fantasy Life i Surprise Update Adds Free Roguelike Mode ‘Snoozaland’ On All Platforms

Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time has launched a surprise free update, “Sinister Broker Bazario’s Schemes,” introducing a roguelike mode called Snoozaland across PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch. In Snoozaland, players begin each run as a level one character, facing a dynamically shifting world with no carryover between attempts.

Snoozaland transforms Fantasy Life i with roguelike gameplay: Players start with an unequipped, level one protagonist in Snoozaland, where every attempt rearranges the world map, and all progress resets after each run. “You’ll always start as an unequipped level one character, and the world will rearrange itself every time you reattempt it,” states the official announcement. Unlike the main game’s persistent progress and ongoing town-building, Snoozaland operates as a self-contained challenge where recruited skills, equipment, and items only last for that single attempt.

Key Features of the ‘Sinister Broker Bazario’s Schemes’ Update

• Roguelike Mode Added: Snoozaland offers a ‘one life, one attempt’ challenge. Each session resets player level and inventory, ensuring all players start on a level playing field each time.
• Dynamic World Generation: The map, enemy placement, and item locations randomise with every new run, offering replayability and surprise.
• Job System On-the-Fly: “You’ll learn new lives – the game’s job/class/role system – on the job, and gather equipment as you explore,” the source confirms. This means players pick up new skills and roles organically while progressing through Snoozaland, rather than planning builds beforehand.
• End-Boss and Rewards: Each run culminates with a powerful boss fight. Defeating the end-boss grants uniquely powerful rewards exclusive to this mode.
• Alchemy Robots: Players can encounter alchemy robots in Snoozaland; “they’ll potentially spit out powerful items, providing you fill them up with various unwanted materials and equipment first.”
• Platform Availability: The update is free and available now on PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch.

No Character Permanence: The mode is implied to be entirely self-contained. “The game’s website makes it sound like a self-contained experience, which presumably means the character you build while adventuring in Snoozaland only lasts for as long as your run does, and that there’s no actual permanence there,” reports Eurogamer.

Fantasy Life i: Overview and Launch Impact

Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time originally debuted as a prominent launch title on the Switch 2. The game combines elements of role-playing, town building, resource gathering, and crafting, a style often compared to Animal Crossing and Dragon Quest. As Robert Purchese comments, “I found Fantasy Life i to be one of the Switch 2’s most alluring launch titles. It’s a sort of cross between Animal Crossing and Dragon Quest – a game that’s part town building and resource harvesting and crafting, and part role-playing adventure. It’s bright and colourful and uplifting.”

New content strengthens Fantasy Life i’s position as an underrated slow life RPG with this substantial post-launch update. The addition of roguelike gameplay offers players a radically different mode to the core experience, diversifying its gameplay and replay value.

• Title: Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time
• Update Name: Sinister Broker Bazario’s Schemes
• Mode Added: Snoozaland Roguelike
• Free Update Available On: PC, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch
• Release Date for Update: 2 January, 2026
• Core Features: Roguelike procedural generation, self-contained character progression, unique end-boss and rewards, job system adaptation on-the-fly.

For more information or to access the update, visit the official Fantasy Life i website. As the genre expands, Fantasy Life i’s embrace of both slow life RPG and roguelike mechanics sets it apart as one of 2026’s most flexible fantasy adventure offerings.