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Rune Factory Frontier

The player can own a farm. There are 4 distinct seasons, 3 of which you can grow different types of crops. Examples include: Strawberries and turnips in the spring, tomatoes and pineapples in the summer, and…

85 27 November 2008

Rune Factory Frontier is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Neverland, released 27 November 2008 on Wii.

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What Rune Factory Frontier is

Rune Factory Frontier is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Neverland and released in 2008. It was published by Marvelous Entertainment. It is available on Wii only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The player can own a farm. There are 4 distinct seasons, 3 of which you can grow different types of crops. Examples include: Strawberries and turnips in the spring, tomatoes and pineapples in the summer, and yams in the fall. There are many other crops, and you can grow flowers, which can all be sold for gold (the game's currency.) Farming is only half of the game. The other half is dungeon crawling. There are four very different dungeons, three of which represent the four different seasons (the third dungeon represents both autumn and winter). In these dungeons, crops of that dungeon's seasonal affiliation can be grown. The fourth dungeon, Whale Island, is omni-seasonal, and all crops can…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Rune Factory series

Rune Factory Frontier is the third of 18 entries we hold in the Rune Factory series. It arrived 11 months after Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon. The next entry was Rune Factory 3: A Fantasy Harvest Moon in 2009. Its critic score of 85 is 9 points above the series average of 76. The highest-rated entry is Rune Factory 4 Special at 87.

See all 18 Rune Factory games in release order →

How it was received

Rune Factory Frontier holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 81% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 20 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Rune Factory Frontier launched on 27 November 2008, within three weeks of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead and Call of Duty: World at War. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead, Call of Duty: World at War.

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When did Rune Factory Frontier come out?
Rune Factory Frontier was released on 27 November 2008 for Wii.

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