Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.
At $39.99. It has been as low as $9.99.
- Story and characters: 89 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 35 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 21 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- No recurring complaint surfaced in 300 sampled reviews
Based on 841 player reviews · updated 4 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
The entire town is full of memorable NPCs that have unique dialogue for you each day that rivals the Animal Crossing series in terms of volume, and there's plenty of special interactions based on the weather, two characters being in the same room, conversations that carry across days, etc.
While perhaps the depth of each of those systems is diminished by focusing on all three, RF3 is definitely a "more than the sum of its parts" situation, with each of the three gameplay loops flowing into each other seamlessly and allowing you to drastically switch up the gameplay so you don't get bored.
-The graphics are also obviously improved.
-You can change language options (text/voice acting) in case you are curious how original Japanese VO sounds like, a feature since Rune Factory 4 Special.
It's very painfully obvious that they simply took the original art and used an AI upscaling tool to blow it up, and when you look at it super close it doesn't look that great... however if you play the game in windowed mode or on a smaller screen (such as the Steam Deck, which this game is a great fit for), it's honestly not nearly as noticeable.
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 3 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $39.99. The lowest we've tracked is $9.99.
The data behind the verdict
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We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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