Rune Factory 4
Rune Factory 4 marks the return of the popular Harvest Moon spinoff that combines farming with dungeon adventuring. For the first time in the series, the player can select to play as a male or female hero, and…
Rune Factory 4 is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Neverland, released 19 July 2012 on Nintendo 3DS. The main story takes about 51.3 hrs to finish.
What Rune Factory 4 is
Rune Factory 4 is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Neverland and released in 2012. It was published by Marvelous AQL. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Rune Factory 4 is a 2012 role-playing simulation game developed by Neverland and published by Marvelous AQL. It is the sixth game in the Rune Factory series. It was released for the Nintendo 3DS in Japan in July 2012, in North America in October 2013, and in PAL regions in December 2014.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Rune Factory series
Rune Factory 4 is the sixth of 18 entries we hold in the Rune Factory series. It arrived a year after Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny. The next entry was Rune Factory 4 Special in 2019. Its critic score of 79 is 3 points above the series average of 76. The highest-rated entry is Rune Factory 4 Special at 87.
How it was received
Rune Factory 4 holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 9 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 51.3 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 116 hrs, roughly 2.3 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Rune Factory 4 launched on 19 July 2012, within three weeks of Spelunky, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Deponia and Orcs Must Die! 2. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Spelunky, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Deponia, Orcs Must Die! 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Rune Factory 4 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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