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Bravely Default is a 2012 role-playing video game developed by Silicon Studio and published by Square Enix for the Nintendo 3DS. It is set in the world of Luxendarc and features a turn-based battle system built around the Brave and Default mechanics.
Bravely Default released in North America on the 7th of February 2014. The North American release was based on the expanded For the Sequel edition and published by Nintendo.
The Brave and Default system lets characters bank turns by choosing Default, which accumulates Brave Points and reduces incoming damage. Choosing Brave spends those points to take multiple actions in a single turn, even going into negative figures at the cost of waiting to act again.
Revo, the leader of Japanese musical group Sound Horizon, composed the music for Bravely Default. The originally agreed track count of 20 to 30 nearly doubled during production as Revo identified situations that needed their own dedicated music.
Bravely Default sold 141,529 units in its debut week in Japan with a sell-through rate above 85%. By July 2014, one million copies had been sold worldwide, with 400,000 in Japan and 600,000 overseas. The Bravely series has shipped over 3 million copies as of March 2026.
Bravely Default led to a direct sequel, Bravely Second: End Layer, released in Japan in 2015 and overseas in 2016. A third entry, Bravely Default II, was released worldwide on the 26th of February 2021. Mobile spin-offs include Bravely Default: Praying Brage and Bravely Archive: D's Report, the latter reaching over four million downloads by August 2015.