Rune Factory 5
Skip · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 48, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Length
- 51.2h
- Value
- $0.78/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 60% ($15.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 65% ($13.99)
- Last discount ended
- 16 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 660 Ti, 9 GB of storage. Windows only.
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!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $13.99, set in November 2025. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 29 in the 4 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 20 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Little Witch in the Woods ($19.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats STORY OF SEASONS: A Wonderful Life ($39.99, scores 33).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 17 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 51.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 747 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 252 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
51.2 hours to finish it, 145 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.8 times the campaign.
The drop-off
89% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
39 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 07:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Ugh...😣 NEED MORE FEMALE NPC! ATLEAST PUT 1 MOMMY SPEC merryable NPC.... All female here are KIDS... I love the mermaid & HOTSPRING lady on RuneF3...(NDS) Also i prefer the RF3 opening... "Fly higher🎶" Evrything cost RP and now way to regain RP except from certain food or bath, and no way to increase RP & HP. YES or No? Hmm... I will give it 6/10. RF3 is way better, like alot alot.
More people get the achievement for finishing the story than the achievement for making it to winter for the first time In all seriousness however Rune Factory 5 has a lot of charm to offer. I don't think it's a good entry point into the series for brand new players, but if you've played any previous RFs then you'll have a good time with this one
I've been playing 3 Rune Factory games back to back. Started off with Guardians of Azuma, then moved onto Rune Factory 4 and now Rune Factory 5. I enjoyed Guardians of Azuma and Rune Factory 4 - the former is more sleek modern entry whereas the latter is retro entry with lots of charm mixed with some frustration. Rune Factory 5 isn't sleek nor charming like other two Rune Factory games I've played. I'm playing on...
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Cite this score
Rune Factory 5 scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1702330/rune-factory-5Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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