Games like Rune Factory 5
If Rune Factory 5 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rune Factory 4 Special, Rune Factory 3 Special and Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Rune Factory 5 is a 3D farming action RPG developed by Marvelous Inc. and released in 2022. Players take on the role of a new ranger in the SEED peacekeeping organization, splitting their time between cultivating crops on their farm and venturing into dungeons to round up monsters and investigate rune-related mysteries. The game blends agricultural simulation with action RPG combat and creature collection, allowing players to befriend and taint monsters alongside their farming duties. The single-player experience spans a long campaign with a normal difficulty curve. It is currently playable on Steam Deck and holds a 77% positive rating from over 1,100 Steam reviews. The game is priced at $39.99 USD.
About Rune Factory 5: As the newest ranger of a peacekeeping organization known as SEED, protect your community by rounding up rowdy monsters and going on special missions. Cultivate your farm and friendships alike while unravelling rune-related mysteries!
Players who liked Rune Factory 5 also play
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Rune Factory 4 Special
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Top pick for Rune Factory 5 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares RPG with Rune Factory 5.
Journey to the vibrant world of Rune Factory and experience the legendary fantasy farming adventure like never before!
Rune Factory 3 Special
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Second-strongest match for Rune Factory 5 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Rune Factory 5.
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: Guardians of Azuma
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Third-strongest match for Rune Factory 5 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and RPG with Rune Factory 5.
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.
Artisan Story
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Ranked #4 for Rune Factory 5 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Rune Factory 5.
Aspiring to be the best artisan in the world, our young artisans are opening their own workshop complete with a monster ranch. Tame monsters from the dungeon, tend to your fantasy farm, collect materials and craft recipes, and experience a carefree story rich fantasy life
圣维丹物语
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Ranked #5 for Rune Factory 5 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Rune Factory 5.
A team mode RPG strategy game, it has a ranch cultivation system, operates ranches to obtain role cultivation resources, and can freely choose role cultivation methods. It uses different roles to combine a strong team and strengthen the team's ability to take risks.
Ooblets
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Ranked #6 for Rune Factory 5 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Rune Factory 5.
Ooblets is a relaxing and offbeat farming, town life, and creature collection game. Manage your farm, grow and train your ooblets, explore strange lands, and have dance-offs!
Re:Legend
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Ranked #7 for Rune Factory 5 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Rune Factory 5.
Adventure with friends in a beautiful world of wonder and fantastic creatures. Build, craft, farm and fish, as you raise and breed amazing pet companions!
Ova Magica
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Ranked #8 for Rune Factory 5 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and RPG with Rune Factory 5.
Escape everyday stress and start a new life in Clover Town! With adorable blob creatures by your side, you’ll farm, make new friends, and explore uncharted lands. Will you find love, or become the greatest blob trainer? Your story is yours to shape!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Rune Factory 5
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Rune Factory 4 Special
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Reviewers of Rune Factory 5 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Rune Factory 5.
Journey to the vibrant world of Rune Factory and experience the legendary fantasy farming adventure like never before!
Stardew Valley
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Reviewers of Rune Factory 5 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and RPG with Rune Factory 5.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Rune Factory 3 Special
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Reviewers of Rune Factory 5 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation and RPG with Rune Factory 5.
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.
Tides of Destiny
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Reviewers of Rune Factory 5 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Rune Factory 5.
Assemble ever more intricate pieces, harvest the resources they provide, develop your Kingdom, send your explorers to discover the world, and find dry land before angry Gods sweep you away.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rune Factory 5 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~88% under Rune Factory 5 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Rune Factory 5.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~63% under Rune Factory 5 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and RPG with Rune Factory 5.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
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Priced ~75% under Rune Factory 5 on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Rune Factory 5.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Schedule I
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Priced ~50% under Rune Factory 5 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Rune Factory 5.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~63% under Rune Factory 5 on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Rune Factory 5.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
The Forest
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Priced ~50% under Rune Factory 5 on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Rune Factory 5.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
People Playground
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Priced ~75% under Rune Factory 5 on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Rune Factory 5.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Rune Factory 5.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Rune Factory 5.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Rune Factory 5.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Rune Factory 5.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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More from Marvelous Inc.
Other recommendable Steam games by Marvelous Inc., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
DAEMON X MACHINA
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Another title from Marvelous Inc., the studio behind Rune Factory 5.
Pilot your fully customizable Arsenal mech and join your fellow mercenaries in defending humanity from the corrupted machines and gigantic robots in this post-apocalyptic action game!
STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of Mineral Town
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Another title from Marvelous Inc., the studio behind Rune Factory 5. Shares Simulation and RPG with Rune Factory 5.
Experience the joys of life on the farm in this reimagining of a timeless STORY OF SEASONS classic!
Fate/EXTELLA LINK
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Another title from Marvelous Inc., the studio behind Rune Factory 5.
History, legend, and sci-fi collide in the latest chapter of the Fate/EXTRA saga! Join 26 Heroic Spirits from all across time as they hack and slash their way across the battlefields of SE.RA.PH, a digital realm for the last survivors of Earth.
Fate/EXTELLA
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Another title from Marvelous Inc., the studio behind Rune Factory 5.
In the digital realm of SE.RA.PH, the Holy Grail War is over, but the land’s new ruler faces challenges and threats from all sides. The servants now find themselves drawing up tense and unlikely alliances, preparing for a conflict that may tear SE.RA.PH apart...or destroy it entirely.
STORY OF SEASONS: Grand Bazaar
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Another title from Marvelous Inc., the studio behind Rune Factory 5. Shares Simulation with Rune Factory 5.
Searching for a peaceful farm life, a fresh mountain breeze, and your own market stall? Look no further than the friendly community of Zephyr Town! Here you’ll grow crops and raise animals, get to know the locals, and sell your wares at the town's bazaar to restore it to its former glory.
Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma
WHY THIS
Another title from Marvelous Inc., the studio behind Rune Factory 5. Shares Adventure and RPG with Rune Factory 5.
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.
Rune Factory 4 Special
WHY THIS
Another title from Marvelous Inc., the studio behind Rune Factory 5. Shares RPG with Rune Factory 5.
Journey to the vibrant world of Rune Factory and experience the legendary fantasy farming adventure like never before!
DORAEMON STORY OF SEASONS
WHY THIS
Another title from Marvelous Inc., the studio behind Rune Factory 5. Shares Simulation with Rune Factory 5.
Japan's adored Doraemon meets Story of Seasons in this new, fresh take on farming, now on Steam! The setting is Natura, and the theme is creating bonds. While doing so, enjoy the heartwarming interactions through each character in the story!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Rune Factory 3 Special
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation and RPG with Rune Factory 5.
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: Guardians of Azuma
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and RPG with Rune Factory 5.
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.
Ooblets
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Rune Factory 5.
Ooblets is a relaxing and offbeat farming, town life, and creature collection game. Manage your farm, grow and train your ooblets, explore strange lands, and have dance-offs!
Ova Magica
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation and RPG with Rune Factory 5.
Escape everyday stress and start a new life in Clover Town! With adorable blob creatures by your side, you’ll farm, make new friends, and explore uncharted lands. Will you find love, or become the greatest blob trainer? Your story is yours to shape!
Frequently asked about Rune Factory 5
- Does Rune Factory 5 run on Steam Deck?
- Rune Factory 5 is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Rune Factory 5 cost?
- Rune Factory 5 is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Rune Factory 5?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rune Factory 5 are Rune Factory 4 Special, Rune Factory 3 Special, Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma.
- Who developed Rune Factory 5?
- Rune Factory 5 was developed by Marvelous Inc. and published by XSEED Games, Marvelous USA, Inc., Marvelous Europe.
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