
Welcome to the eastern nation of Azuma! In this fresh take on Rune Factory, use your powers as an Earth Dancer to restore the land, its people, and even its gods. Along the way, battle corrupted monsters, rebuild seasonal farms and villages, and form bonds with the colorful locals.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.14/day in the week to Sep 3 → 2.14/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 23 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 14 places towards #1, and the 2,515 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
The Celestial Collapse—a calamity caused by a colossal object crashing into the eastern lands known as Azuma. The devastating impact sent fragments of terrain to the skies above and the seas below. With the earth shattered, the power provided by the runes ceased to flow. The gods of nature vanished soon after. Mountains crumbled and fields withered, leaving the people with nothing…not even hope.
You awaken, startled by a dream of dueling dragons. You don’t remember how or why, but a voice resonates within you.
"Accept the power of an Earth Dancer. Use this power to save the land."
Experience Rune Factory reimagined! Guardians of Azuma is an all-new adventure that takes place in the never-before-seen eastern country of Azuma. Embrace your Earth Dancer powers and fight against the corruption spreading throughout Azuma to bring hope back to this once-prosperous land.
As an Earth Dancer, use the power of dance, sacred treasures, and fresh weapons like the Bow and Talisman to purify the land, your farms, and undo the Blight’s damage.
Don’t just mind the farm—rebuild entire villages! Construct and place buildings, enticing people to return to the villages and contribute. Revive the gods to bring vitality and valuable resources back to the plagued lands.
Experience beautiful Japanese-inspired character designs and aesthetics—from festivals, events, and monsters. Explore Azuma’s natural landscapes and its seasonal-themed locales steeped in tradition.
Choose between male and female protagonists, then befriend or romance any of the eligible candidates in fully voiced scenarios. Recruit these new friends to aid you in battle, too!
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| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $59.99 | 3.7Kreviews | 88% | — | $5M |
| $59.99 | 714ratings | 94% | — | not modelled | |
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Reviews
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Reviews
Huge jump in terms of story, fluidity in fighting, and ease of farming compared to the previous installments. It's still a general audience story, so while not groundbreaking and a bit corny at times, I didn't expect it to keep on giving arc after arc. Whenever I thought I was watching a finale, I would find out there's another arc. I liked it all because it hits a lot of anime tropes I enjoy. I love how the main character is voiced and has an actual personality, although a bit plain. And I appreciate this decision because I'm not too interested in self-insert silent protagonists. It must've been expensive given there's 2 options as protagonists. There are also a lot of tools to make farming more efficient and how you get these tools are really rewarding as they tie to the story and characters you meet. The only downside is that the final products from farming, fishing and cooking don't serve much purpose in the story, in battle or as means of earning money. You get the most money from passive income - just pressing a few buttons to assign your villagers to fish instead of you. I still enjoyed all these aspects though, even when I realise I barely earned anything after upgrading all my crops to the max level and selling a hundred of it. As for the fights, they are very fluid but also a little too easy. The power ups between dungeons is too big. There's no point in keeping or upgrading your current equipment because it gets replaced every two dungeons. Plus, it's very easy to spam the special attacks from the divide treasures. The only challenging part of the game for me is the last 4 trials post-game when it suddenly jumped in difficulty. That said, I bought this game for a cozy experience, so I don't actually mind too much. It also plays very well even with my 5 year old budget gaming laptop. Games don't need the latest graphics and most demanding specs to be enjoyable! *SPOILERS* *and some unnecessary rambling* However, I wish it had ended after saving the unchosen protagonist (Subaru, since I was playing as Kaguya), or at least given him a better story after his arc. He basically becomes invisible after joining the party, and his story gets overshadowed by Clarice, who has the same story beats as the unchosen protagonist. Subaru even joins what I think is the least interesting village out of the four, and he only interacts with side characters from that village. I was excited to see how he would've contributed to the final arc against Clarice, but instead he's busy selling flour and chocolate from a small vendor cart that already has a vendor and doesn't need him. He's a hunter, so it doesn't even fit his character profile. He could've joined Pilika and gone hunting with her. The other gods could've interacted with him more. They could have played into the fact that he could've been the Earth Dancer, or at least had the heart of one, if he hadn't been so unlucky. Even Kotaro, Pilika, Hina and Murasame had more contributions in the final arc than Subaru ever had. And they shouldn't have forced the romance either. Why mention them being betrothed if it barely impacts anything? Please let the bonding quests be interpreted as platonic until they reach the dating stage. Is it obvious I bought this game for Subaru? Lol. If I'd known he'd be downgraded to an invisible side character when not picked, I would've chosen him as my MC. I'd play this again as Subaru, but there's no New Game Plus and I'd hate to lose all my progress. Please give us a New Game Plus option! Also, Mauro and Watarase's accents are out of place. Maybe just don't next time. But I loved this game overall. As of time of writing, I've spent 100 hours in less than a month, maxed out all my villages to level 10, defeated the final post-game dungeon, married with 2 kids, and I'm currently just searching for more things to do.
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Languages: English*, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese*, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean*languages with full audio support
| $29.99−50% |
| 14ratings |
| 98% |
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Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 876 reviews with recorded playtime.
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This game is very enjoyable, i cant wait for rune factory 6. if youve never played a rune factory game this one is most likely very different than what youre expecting it was for me atleast.
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Congrats, you tapped into my childhood love of Viva Pinata, added combat and romancable characters voiced by several names I love. Just. Don't lock future bachelors/bachelorettes behind DLC on day one again, that was beyond assy.
Good game, but some parts are too boring to keep playing. Still, 8/10 — +1 because Clarice is a good girl MUST PROTECT.
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Love this game! I've been addicted. I personally think it's much better than Rune Factory 5 because I hardly played that one after I started. The differences of why I like this more: - There's so much stuff to do - you can manage 4 villages which keeps you busy. There's farming, personal quests, building, exploration. I found Rune Factory 5's one village so empty - The skills are more simplified. I personally didn't like how in Rune Factory 5 you had bread recipes and everything gave experience - I don't want to swing at a dummy mindlessly to boost exp in my sword category - here there a skill trees which are more familiar to me and if I'm weak in a skill I can put my general points into that skill. - Woolby is a great sidekick. - I like how the menu is organized - I think it's more streamlined and easier to find things. - I love the storage management - anything extra goes to your storage that you can access any time. So storage is a breeze. - It's easy to save any time or fast travel anywhere - it's awesome - I like making an impact and bringing the villages back to life - it's nice to see transformation and progress. Things I think could be better: - The character dialogue and interactions are meh. When you hang out, you don't always get to know more about the characters. It feels underwhelming. - There's no fishing minigame if you like that. It's just cast the line and click when they've bitten. - On the one hand, the days have a ton of time which is nice, but on the other hand I'm not even done Spring Year 1 and I feel like I've already done a ton of stuff. Maybe there's more I don't know about yet. Overall, I think it's great and a step up from Rune Factory 5 in my opinion.
I swear to God if you interrupt me with yet another pointless cutscene, I'm going to pull my damn hair out. I still like it, but Jesus.
i like the gameplay it's fun. farming sim, combat, dating, all very cool very swag
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