Developer WILD BUNCH Productions announced a delay for Armed Fantasia: To The End of the Wilderness their crowdfunded spiritual successor game.

Armed Fantasia will forgo its originally planned March 2025 release window for a new unannounced date. Team noted they will now provide updates every few months instead of monthly, as their focus will be on the development of both games, finding more partners, and giving supporters more substantial updates.

Whenever Armed Fantasia: To The End of the Wilderness does release, it’ll be available for Windows PC, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch (or the Switch 2). In case you missed it, get our interview with Wild Arms series creator and Armed Fantasia director Akifumi Kaneko.

The other game crowdfunded with Armed Fantasia, the Shadow Hearts spiritual successor Penny Blood, was also originally planned for a 2025 release but is likely delayed too. It got a prequel game, Penny Blood: Hellbound, which is now available.

Here’s a message from Wild Arms series creator Akifumi Kaneko on the delay:

To all the supporters of ARMED FANTASIA: 

Hello. This is Kaneko, the person in charge of total game design and scenario writer of ARMED FANTASIA.

Today, I have an important announcement to make. When we held the Kickstarter campaign for ARMED FANTASIA, we announced the game was scheduled to be released in March 2025, but after much discussion among the team and the developers, and as a result of the current progress of the project, it has been decided to review and postpone the launch date of ARMED FANTASIA.

We are truly sorry for the delay. We will continue to discuss the changed release date and other matters. I am unable to disclose any further specifics of the situation at this time, but since I was able to report this decision to you now, it should be clear that we are still moving things forward little by little. We are working to bring ARMED FANTASIA closer to its ideal form and to go beyond the realistic limitations of the project. The campaign team and the developers are putting their blood, sweat and tears into the wasteland of Londenium, so we appreciate your continued support and encouragement. We will do our best.