10 Awesome Games Like Rune Factory

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Rune factory are focused on the action role-playing game style. The player can grow crops, using upgradeable farm equipment, defeating monsters in dungeons. Once a monster is tamed, it can help the player in battle, produce goods, or help to harvest and grows crops. The ever-growing fanbase never stopped the demand for more games like rune factory.

so here are 10 games like Rune Factory

1. Littlewood  

  • Genre- Simulation, Role playing, adventure
  • Publisher– Smash games
  • Developer- Sean Young
  • Perspective- Third-person perspective (TPP)
  • Platforms – Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, 
  •                    Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android
  • Where to download and buy- Steam

Littlewood is inspired by games like Rune Factory that start as the players are spawned in the middle of the jungle surrounded by trees, rocks, weeds. player has to gain the skills with time to unlock and master new tools to reshape and develop the world around him,

The players can harvest wood, mining ore, fishing, etc. they can unlock new structures by upgrading their toolkit. Players have to fulfill the townsfolk’s request to gain higher experience and level up faster.

The game was released on August 4, 2020.

2. No Place Like Home

  • Genre- Simulation, Role playing
  • Publisher– Realms Distribution
  • Developer- Chicken Launcher
  • Perspective- Third-person perspective (TPP)
  • Platforms – Microsoft Windows
  • Where to download and buy- Steam

The game is still in early access but the games review are just toping the steam charts and the fan base of this game just keeps on growing

The gameplay starts as most of the human population left the planet and went to Mars to settle down. However only a few people were left behind on earth and players are spawned as these last survivors, the goal of the game is to clean the surrounding and gather resources. Find new friends and allies. Rebuild the village and environment and run your own post-apocalypse farm.

The game was released on December 23,2020.

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3. My Time at Portia

  • Genre- Simulation, Role playing
  • Publisher– Team17
  • Developer- Pathea
  • Perspective- Third-person perspective (TPP)
  • Platforms – Microsoft Windows, PlayStation4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch,  
  •  Where to download and buy- Steam

My time at Portia is based on action roleplay and simulation genre. The main storyline of the game takes place long after the destruction of the civilization and a new type of underground civilization is emerged to rebuild the world. The ultimate goal of the game is to rebuild the city of Portia and become the best builder in the game.

The game was a success and fans of the game wanted to play more games with a similar genre to games like rune factory and harvest moon.

4. Harvest Moon: Light of Hope

  • Genre- Simulation, Role-playing, Adventure
  • Publisher– Natsume
  • Developer- Tabot, Inc.
  • Perspective- Third-person perspective (TPP)
  • Platforms – Android, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, iOS
  • Where to download and buy- Nintendo , PlayStation store , play store , steam Microsoft store

Harvest Moon: Light of Hope is a game like Rune factory as it is a farming and role-playing genre-based game that the fans admire a lot.

The game takes place in a harbor town, with the final goal of the game being to revive the lighthouse. As in most of the games to the similar genre, players are able to grow crops and raise livestock. Additionally, players are also able to interact with the non-playing characters and get married, have a child, buy animals and help villagers in-game.

5. Wild Season

  • Genre- Simulation, Role playing
  • Publisher– Quickfire Games
  • Developer- Quickfire Games
  • Perspective- Third-person perspective (TPP)
  • Platforms – Android, Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS
  • Where to download and buy- Steam.

Wild Season is a farming simulation game that is inspired by games likes Rune Factory and Harvest Moon. Although it shares many of the same concepts and mechanics as from all the framing and role-playing games out there.

the gameplay starts as the character is looking for a job and comes across an advertisement of a farm on sale and the player decided to buys the farm and move out of the city to look after the farm he just purchased.

6. Verdant Skies

  • Genre- Simulation, Roleplaying
  • Publisher- Howling Moon Software
  • Developer- Howling Moon Software
  • Perspective- Third-person perspective (TPP)
  • Platforms – Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS
  • Where to download and buy- Steam

Verdant Skies is a simulation game born from a love for games like Rune Factory with role-playing and simulation in the mind of the developer of the game.

The player is introduced to the hand-painted alien world of Viridis Primus. the player has to ensure the success of the colony by farming and making friends. players can even end up in a romantic relationship with in-game characters.

7. Garden Paws

  • Genre- Simulation, Role-playing, Adventure
  • Publisher- Bitten Toast Games                                    
  • Developer- Bitten Toast Games
  • Perspective- Third-person perspective (TPP)
  • Platforms – Microsoft Windows, macOS
  • Where to download and buy- Steam

The game takes the very best inspiration from games like rune factory for its anime characters and framing simulations.

The game starts when the player has inherited the grandparent’s farm as they set off to travel the world and the player has to work with a non-player character named Frank at a local construction shop to finish off the final touches on your new home.

The player has to expand their own home and other areas in the surrounding by earning in-game coins. And in order to earn the coins players have to run a shop and explore the nearby area and caves etc.

The game was released on December 18, 2018.

8. Yonder the cloud catcher chronicles

  • Genre- Simulation, Adventure
  • Publisher- Prideful Sloth
  • Developer- Prideful Sloth
  • Perspective- Third-person perspective (TPP)
  • Platforms – PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One
  • Where to download and buy- Steam, Nintendo, Microsoft store, PlayStation store

The game is set in an open-world map and is based on an adventure mode inspired by games like rune factory and the player is spawned in the vast Greenland of the open map.

The primary goal of the player is to collect magical creatures, known as sprites. the players can take part in farming fishing and crafting during the entire adventure.

The game was released on July 18,2017.

9. Farmer’s Dynasty

  • Genre- Simulation, Role-playing
  • Publisher- Toplitz production, Nacon, Bigben Interactive
  • Developer- Toplitz Productions, UMEO Studios
  • Perspective- Third-person perspective (TPP)
  • Platforms – PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, Xbox One
  • Where to download and buy- Steam, Microsoft store, Nintendo, PlayStation store.

Farmer dynasty is a real-life farming simulator in which you can revisit the old memories of your grandfather’s farm.

Players can live build the farm and grow and sell crops for profit. players can even repair and renovate the roofs, stables, barns, etc. according to their own likings. Users have to complete in-game quests in order to push their level up.

The game was released on December 14, 2017.

10. World’s Dawn

  • Genre- Simulation, Role-playing, Adventure
  • Publisher- Wayward Prophet                                  
  • Developer- Wayward Prophet
  • Perspective- Third-person perspective (TPP)
  • Platforms – Microsoft Windows
  • Where to download and buy- Steam

The game world’s dawn is compared to games like rune factory and harvest moon but with better writing but the game is set to be more relaxed to play as compared to games like rune factory.

The gameplay is set in sugar blossom valley, the players have to build friendships, harvest crops, find love and look after livestocks. players can also compete in festivals, mine forge cook and discover magic, etc.