Rune Factory 4 Special on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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Journey to the vibrant world of Rune Factory and experience the legendary fantasy farming adventure like never before!
Rune Factory 4 Special is a rpg, farming sim and adventure game
developed by Marvelous Inc.
and published by XSEED Games, Marvelous USA, Inc. and Marvelous Europe.
Released on December 07th 2021 is available only on Windows
in 7 languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese.
It has received 1,870 reviews of which 1,644 were positive and 226 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-6400
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics HD530
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 5 GB available space
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One of the absolute best in the genre. A perfectly grindy farm-sim with addicting crafting and leveling systems, deceptively deep farming mechanics, and likeable characters. While combat is simple, exploring and progressing through the game's many dungeons and areas is rewarding and truly sets Rune Factory apart from other farm-sims. This port introduces many qol improvements and a small amount of extra content. Unfortunately, the ai upscaling they used on all of the textures makes them look pretty undefined and smeary. I would recommend using the Rune Factory 4 - Unfiltered mod from Nexus; it makes a huge difference.
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After playing Rune Factory 4 on every possible platform throughtout the decade, i have many things to say about this game, I'll try my best to answer your possible questions about this game while giving my honest thoughts. Oh boy, i never thought i would fall in love with a game that looks like an unseasoned chicken breast, RF4 may be one of the most unexciting looking game, but dear god its a fricking "VIDEOGAME" I couldn't ever guess that Rune Factory 4 was the game i always imagined as the ideal "perfect video game", it wasn't yet still to this date its the closest thing to my imagination. Im not talking about you can be fishing, foraging, farming, fighting, romancing, crafting, forging, cooking (In a lot of various types) petting etc. the most important thing ,even the current developers are skipping, is you want to put dedication on them! Yes, in Rune Factory 4 there are absurd amount of content and none of them feels useless, at some point you always see yourself dealing with one of them yet the game doesn't force you, and it knows how to reward you for those. There are 50+ progressable skills, all of them is needed for your progression, because of attributions are much needed to survive if you want to end the game. For the combat, its nothing special, for a 3ds game, its awesome. close combat tools aren't that various but i wouldn't say the same for abilities, they are so cool and enough for build variations. Forging and crafting are the 2 most important skills since this game is %50 dungeon crawling, even in easy mode you never find yourself overleveled/overgeared yet you can easily become undergeared and it will be a true nightmare. Don't forget everyboss can oneshot you if you lose your focus on battles. Generally game isn't balanced because the normal mobs can't even answer your swings yet some bosses makes you feel like an ant. Characters are lively and well-written but don't forget this game is in generic jrpg format, you won't find unforgetable npcs or scenarios, bachelorettes have few good choices but bachelors are lacking. And the farming in this game is mindblowing, it has soo many layers that it will give you seizures and headaches if you put too many time in it, but if you don't put any time it punishes you HARSH. you can consider this good or bad. Lastly, is "Special" version really that special? I don't think so, it added two new extra content called "Newlymed Mode" and "Another Episode" to be honest i never found myself dipping in both of them, i tried them, they are short and wholesome yet pretty useless, also i didn't like the portrait motions on newlymed mode, its a bit disturbing, scares me i guess? It fixed a lot of older 3ds version bugs plus added QOL features, unfortunately some non existent sound bugs appeared in this version. If you try to view "Special" as hd port of a game that was stuck in old generation consoles instead of a content adder it will no longer be a problem, this is the best version for now. If you are a JRPG fan, it may be a good experience for you, if you are a farming fan, it may be a good experience for you, have fun!
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judging RF4S as a remaster, it's... passable. the newlywed mode and another episodes are both cute, but there's not much depth to either of them- they're essentially just some extra romance and epilogue scenes for each partner. there's a decent amount of bug fixes/improvements to mechanics that could be annoying in the original game, but Special also introduces some audio/text issues that weren't present in the original... you get the idea. it's probably the best way to play this game, but not without some caveats. i'd say the most notable thing is that it just doesn't look very good. the character portraits look great, but it's obvious that the rest of the game's textures were hastily upscaled from the 3DS version without much manual adjustment. it's something you'll get used to after playing for a bit, and it's mostly inoffensive in the grand scheme of things, but I mean... you can see it in the screenshots. it's not a pretty game if you look too closely at anything. reviewing this as a full game, rather than just a remaster, though? oh my god. Rune Factory 4 knocks it out of the park in every area that I think a lot of newer farming sims miss for me. there's a much bigger focus on character writing and relationships than you'll ever find in a game like Stardew Valley, and all of the game's NPCs and mechanics are tied into an overarching main story that makes the whole thing feel really natural. every character in Selphia has enough depth for you to form some kind of opinions on them, and the moment-to-moment dialogue is really fun. Rune Factory's mission statement is functionally "what if a farming sim and an action RPG were grafted into the same game", so you're obviously working with a lot of different systems and ideas. in fact, the game leans into that very openly by giving you a cartoonish amount of skills to level for things like walking and sleeping, on top of whatever skills you'd expect. beyond that, though, the game's systems are streamlined and interconnected enough that it never really feels overwhelming. farming will (expectedly) boost your farming skills, but it also helps to develop your earth magic skill. each romance-able character can act as a combat partner while exploring outside of town, with a unique ability or gimmick reflective of their personality. for how many different things Rune Factory 4 is trying to do, it all comes together shockingly well. and the sum of those parts is a game that's just... really, really damn good. RF4 made me remember what i loved so much about a genre that i've been pretty disillusioned with for a long time, now. it's become an all-time favorite very quickly. there are mods, if you want to get gay married.
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One of the best games I've ever played. It has a little bit of everything without feeling bloated. Fighting and taming monsters? Yep. Crafting and cooking? Yep. Skill progression and leveling? Yep. Romance and marriage that felt like you were living in a fairy-tale novel? Yep. (Love you, Doug.) Fishing? Yep. Farming? Yep. Festivals and town events? Yep. Characters that have so much dialogue and life put into them that I'm still discovering new conversations after hundreds of hours put in on both PC and the Switch? It has that too, and so much more. I can't even fit it all here. It has to be experienced at least once. I played as Frey, the female main character, and it's one of the few times I played as a nameable protagonist that I felt was alive and growing as a person the more I played. I wanted her to succeed and live a happy life. I honestly can not recommend this game enough. It's a masterpiece, a hidden gem that I hope a lot more people discover and fall in love with like I did.
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A game that thread a fine line between action RPG and farming sim that not only thrives but excel in it. In that aspect, this game is unmatched and have never been surpassed since. The characters are great and lovable. The town design is compact, you can get to every one very quickly. The loop between building relationships, farming and dungeon diving makes this one of those game where you keep telling yourself 'just one more day' and its already morning and you haven't slept for the past 10 hours. Wonderful.
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Online players
161
Developer
Marvelous Inc.
Publisher
XSEED Games,
Marvelous USA, Inc.,
Marvelous Europe
Release
07 Dec 2021
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