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Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma

2025 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ122963211 ↗
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Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma is a 2025 role-playing simulation game developed and published by Marvelous. It is a spin-off of the Rune Factory series and released for Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and Windows on June 5, 2025. The game received generally positive reviews from critics.

Gameplay

Guardians of Azuma blends elements of farming simulation and action role-playing games. The player can engage in activities such as cultivating crops, battling monsters, and developing relationships with non-player characters. Certain areas are customizable, allowing the player to place farmland, buildings, and decorative items. The player can choose to manually farm crops or to assign tasks to villagers. Many activities earn experience points that can be spent in skill trees, and items like Sacred Treasures have beneficial effects in both combat and daily life. The game features expanded social interactions, allowing the player character to recruit characters to join their party in combat. Several characters are available as romance options regardless of the player character's gender.

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