Prototype via XSEED Games

Fans of the farming/life sim RPG serial Rune Factory have been waiting with bated jiff for further news of the Western release for the latest game, Rune Factory five. The farming gods — which is to say publishers XSEED Games — accept finally seen fit to elaborate on that forbidden knowledge on their supplicants, along with an English-language story trailer.

Rune Factory v will arrive on Western shores on March 22, bringing with it all the farming, monster-fighting, villager-romancing activity that fans have come to await. The physical edition of the game is currently available for pre-social club as either a special "Earthmate" edition for $79.99 or a standard edition for $59.99, with the digital version certain to follow presently.

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The trailer shows off the kind of things players tin expect to get stuck into one time the game finally arrives, including the standard farming mechanics, dungeon-delving with powerful weapons, and building relationships with the denizens of Rigbarth. Previous Japanese trailers have revealed other mechanics at play, including crafting and fishing systems, the ability to data-link with Rune Factory 4, and the Seed Circle mechanic which allows players to restrict or steal from monsters, or even make them allies outside of battle.