Rune Factory 3 Special on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Bridge the divide of an ancient schism between humans and monsters in Rune Factory 3 Special as half-human, half-wooly protagonist Micah. Farm, fight and fall in love as you revisit a classic in the series that perfected the blend of RPG & Life-sim genres.

Rune Factory 3 Special is a rpg, farming sim and romance game developed by Marvelous Inc. and published by XSEED Games, Marvelous USA, Inc. and Marvelous.
Released on September 05th 2023 is available only on Windows in 8 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 651 reviews of which 622 were positive and 29 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 19.03€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Rune Factory 3 Special into these genres:

RPG Farming Sim Romance Adventure Fantasy Action RPG Cute Magic Creature Collector Fishing Crafting Action Combat 3D Singleplayer JRPG Dating Sim Simulation Story Rich Agriculture

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Windows

OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core i5-1135G7
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel Iris Xe Graphics
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 4 GB available space

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March 2025

My first game in the series, and I was really impressed. This is a complete package, with farming, relationships, combat, characters, charming (Not as complete as Stardew though). A lot of waifus as well (Karina the best for me) Maybe the only downside is its controls. The mapping doesn't feel quite alright, but can be overlook if one's not that exiggent

Oct. 2024

An Absolute Gem for anyone that love Farming Sims/RPG PROS CONS 🖥️ Graphics are beautiful, an upgrade to the original released way back on the GBA 🎮 Controls can be a bit difficult to learn at first 📖 Story is simple and the Characters are well written 🎮 Quest system can be a bit frustrating 🎵 Music & Sounds design are memorable and enjoyable 🎮 Gameplay offered a lot of varieties. Numerous skills, simple combat yet contain layers, Numerous crops/weapons, etc.

Oct. 2024

I haven't powered through to end game yet and in fact hit a stopping point for the story (possibly a timegate) but I figured 20 something hours is probably a fair time to review. I think this is good but doesn't have the quality of life you would expect from later rune factory games. This is a visual upgrade to a ds game, I haven't played the original for a direct comparison, but the models definitely look really good, and the UI is crisp. I think they put more effort into the upgrade than they did with 4, but I feel like they probably didn't touch the core game at all. The characters and town is nice. I think the characters are all charming and have a lot of work put into them, and this is the only one where I was split between like three bachelorettes. On that note, you can only play male and romance the women, so it's a lot more restrictive on the sim life front than the other Rune Factory or Story of Seasons offerings on store, but there is actually a plot reason for this and they have relevance to the story, so I suppose you can view it as quality over quantity, but they still have all the cute boys as villagers so I'm sure a lot of the audience of this game was pretty bummed about it. You cannot immediately grow anything out of season, and item management is a lot more tedious. I think normal story of seasons games can get a pass for this because they're juggling a lot less, but it kinda gets under my skin in this? There is a metric ton of inventory management in these games. I wish they implemented the tabbed inventory and the ability to pull up the inventory at the shipping bin the same way it is in 4 and 5. Maybe late game will wow me, but I recommend this game on sale. Rune Factory 4 costs less, and much more fully featured in the quality of life, romance and farming aspects. 5 is less and while some consider it a weaker entry, it still retains a lot of the basic quality of life that 4 had, as well as letting you experience it from a more intimate angle. I recommend getting 4 or 5 first if you don't have them.

Aug. 2024

9.7/10 took off the 0.3 points cause they are scummy about the DLC a little over priced at 40$, would grab on sale 5$ for the Another Episode Pack WTF???? should be in the base game with all the other hardly worthless DLC's playing on steam deck and everything appears to work fine so far played every single RF game and this is the 1st one i played, my introduction to the franchise. got it for Nintendo DS and played the living hell out of it i can get rune factory 5 working on windows 7 but i cant get 3, it keeps crashing when i load up my saves

April 2024

Now I had HUNDREDS of hours of this game on my 3DS/DS system, and I loved it then and I love it now. If Stardew Valley, Harvest Moon, My Time At Portia, Etc. are your style, you WILL love this game. The monsters are cool, there's so much to collect, craft, and use. There is cooking, crafting, forging, alchemy, and farming (among other things), needless to say there's always something to do and the story is also great! The characters are varied and each have their own scenes as you grow friendship/romance depending on the character. I cannot recommend this game highly enough, buy and enjoy. :)

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