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Discover the true power of rice in Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin! Take on hordes of demons in side-scrolling combat to reclaim the land as Sakuna, a spoiled harvest goddess banished to a dangerous island. Then, return to your mountain village and tend a field full of glorious rice.

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin is a action, farming sim and female protagonist game developed by Edelweiss and published by XSEED Games, Marvelous USA and Inc..
Released on November 10th 2020 is available only on Windows in 6 languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Spanish - Latin America.

It has received 5,410 reviews of which 4,987 were positive and 423 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin into these genres:

Action Farming Sim Female Protagonist Story Rich Side Scroller Mythology Platformer Agriculture Crafting Simulation Demons Beat 'em up Difficult Combat Third Person Colorful Cats Singleplayer Dog Anime

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System requirements

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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 8.1/10
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-7500
  • Memory: 6 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 7 GB available space

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June 2025
Sakuna is bizarre mix of charm, jank, attention to detail, and sloppy, obtuse mechanics. It's a lot of fun, and I recommend it if you're into ambitious, Japanese PS2 games. Pros: * This game doesn't just plop in farming mechanics, they _really_ want you to know about rice cultivation. Their love for it is honestly a little infectious. * The physics-y combat is pretty fun, with swinging enemies into each other, and gliding around with the raiment is very zippy. * The dialogue and character animations are charming. While not set in real-life Japan, the game is overflowing with affection for Japanese culture and mythology. Cons: * The platforming and combat can feel _very_ stiff until you play it the way it wants you to play. Dashing is one of the few things that cancels animations, and you can even dash through enemies. You can also jump cancel your dashes, so there's a lot of attack -> dash through -> jump cancel -> grapple to next enemy. * The combat build part is a bit opaque. If you're struggling to do damage, is it the food you ate? Last year's rice harvest? Element type? Time of day? * The farming and gathering mechanics are all kinda-sorta intuitive, but a lot of it isn't explained at all, while other parts are tediously overexplained. * Many enemies are too slow, too passive, and too one-note to pose any challenge, so they compensate by throwing 85 enemies at you per encounter, with a bunch of hard-to-see and unpredictable explosives. If you've played the hot garbage levels in Mario Maker, it feels like that, but with more swords. * The main game loop requires juggling your farming with your exploring, and a lot of progression is locked behind "exploration level", which is achieved by farming pointless side-objectives in each area. Instead of building a narrative pace, you often have to stop to revisit previous areas to kill 40 enemies with blunt damage, or harvest 10 salt, etc. Overall, the game requires some tolerance for janky, old-fashioned experimental design, some slippery controls, and forced pauses in the narrative to go appreciate farming or revisit previous areas. If you enjoy that kind of thing, you'll love Sakuna. Otherwise, you could find less frustrating action platformers and/or farming games.
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June 2025
Expected a classic beat them up game, ended up loving the farming and the ancient hunter gatherer vibe. The farming gameplay and mechanics really made me appreciate the fact that i can have enough food in my table nowaday. Many details taken from ancient rice farming knowledge is included (read from the wiki), and that must be the weirdest random kind of wisdom i have ever absorb from the Internet. The combat is fun, for it is not as hard as other games where the players are provided with enough features to make less punishing. I think it is fair, because the gameplay consist of 2 main part: farming and hunting. Beside the 2.5D visual and map design really made me hooked. The story is easy to follow and is engaging enough, and the music and sound quality is pretty good. All and allthe game helped me go through the rough Covid time so i might be biased. But hey, overall it is nice.
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June 2025
If you like combat and farming so detailed you need to refer to the Japanese Government's site, this game is for you.
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Dec. 2024
Game is fun, Get it full price or discuounted, you are getting your money's worth either way. Its not perfect, however. Combat and movement is clunky and can be frustrating and the lack of diversity in enemies can make it seen repetitive. The story moves along well enough to keep you engaged and doesn't drag for too long despite the 30hrs to beat it. Its paced well imo with enough stuff in between to not make it a drag to complete.
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Dec. 2024
A platform RPG that delivers in every way. You plant rice and tend it. The growing part is very in depth and you really have to manage your rice field. But not too in depth to spoil the game or hold up the exploration. Exploration is a lot of fun. Sakura hits hard and fast and can pull off quite large combos All in all this is the exact RPG I have been looking for for quite a while now. 10/10
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Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 29.99€ on Steam.

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin received 4,987 positive votes out of a total of 5,410 achieving a rating of 8.90.
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Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin was developed by Edelweiss and published by XSEED Games, Marvelous USA and Inc..

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin is not playable on MacOS.

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin is not playable on Linux.

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin is a single-player game.

There are 2 DLCs available for Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin. Explore additional content available for Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin on Steam.

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Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
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Edelweiss
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XSEED Games, Marvelous USA, Inc.
Release 10 Nov 2020
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