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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 666 reviews of which 636 were positive and 30 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam.

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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System requirements

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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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May 2025
Amazing game im new to Rune factory and I have 100% it and I'll play the others I've never thought I would be this addicted to a farming sim game but this is the exception the story writing is good same with the characters (Raven best girl) I look forward to the future of these games
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April 2025
Just finished my first run of RF3 Special after beating RF4 Special and RF5 and I gotta say there's a lot I really love about this one! Dialogue is witty and entertaining, the combat difficulty on Hard is just right, and the general pace of leveling up skills such as crafting feels great. There's better QOL in 4 Special like getting companions earlier, better overworld farms, and better control over shipping items, but I was incredibly engaged with all the systems here in RF3. (Also Karina my beloved!) Between RF3 and RF4, I'd say choose depending on which sets of marriage candidates and characters interests you more; both of them have enough systems shared between each other that I personally think vibes is a good way to choose which to start with.
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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
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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.
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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
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Rune Factory 3 Special is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam.

Rune Factory 3 Special is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 39.99€ on Steam.

Rune Factory 3 Special received 636 positive votes out of a total of 666 achieving a rating of 8.91.
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Rune Factory 3 Special was developed by Marvelous Inc. and published by XSEED Games, Marvelous USA, Inc. and Marvelous.

Rune Factory 3 Special is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Rune Factory 3 Special is not playable on MacOS.

Rune Factory 3 Special is not playable on Linux.

Rune Factory 3 Special is a single-player game.

There are 6 DLCs available for Rune Factory 3 Special. Explore additional content available for Rune Factory 3 Special on Steam.

Rune Factory 3 Special does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Rune Factory 3 Special does not support Steam Remote Play.

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Rune Factory 3 Special
39.99€
8.9
636
30
Game modes
Features
Online players
29
Developer
Marvelous Inc.
Publisher
XSEED Games, Marvelous USA, Inc., Marvelous
Release 05 Sep 2023
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