Rune Factory 4 Special
The 2021 installment of the popular Rune Factory franchise—role-playing sims introduced in 2006 as a spin-off to the big-dog farming game, Harvest Moon—is packed with options. You can get married, farm, enjoy your farming sim town and its festivals, or cut through monstrous dungeons with a sword. You can, as many Steam reviewers note, enjoy the tranquility of a farming sim and the stimulation of different immersive RPG activities.
Special was released on Steam in 2021, but it’s really an extension of Rune Factory 4, which came out in 2012 for the Nintendo 3DS. Because of that, you’ll notice some very 2012 textures, but if you’re looking for a great farming game with gameplay elements that will cheerfully surprise you (swords!), you found it.
