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Rune Factory: Guardians Of Azumais a mix of a farming and narrative game. This makes the game have a definitive end when you finish the main story, but you can also keep playing it as a farming simulator where you grow a bunch of crops for as long as you want.
However, depending on how committed you are, the game can have different levels of endings. Each one will drastically increase the overall time you spend playing it, and here’s how many hours you’ll roughly spend playing each level.
How Long Does It Take To Beat The Main Story?
Rune Factory: Guardians Of Azuma is one of those games where the time you take to beat the main story canvary based on the amount of time you’re spending on other tasks. Generally, you’ll be able to finish the story in 40 to 50 hours, with a chance of beating it even faster or slower.
Essentially, while you’re doing the story, you can spend a lot of time in the farming or bonding aspect of the game, which will monumentally increase your play time. While the main story has a bit of gatekeeping where you have to reach level three on all four villages at some point, it doesn’t stop you from continuing the story much past that.
If you’reusing a special trick while farming,you can pause your timer and make it much fasterto beat the main story.
Another hurdle you might face if you try to rush the main story is the increased level of enemies. To fight against this,you have to constantly create the highest tier of the weapon type you love the mostwhile getting as many decorations to increase your stats as possible.
How Long Does It Take To Maximize Bond With Everyone?
After beating the main story, your nextmain goal is to maximize your bond with all 25 villagersin the game and romance your favorite. If you’re focusing only on your favorite villager that you want to romance, you can maximize their bond during the story itself, adding only an extra two to three hours of playtime to romance them.
However, if you want to take on the task of maximizing your bond with each character, then you’re looking at an additional 20 hours of play time roughlyas you also do all their bond quests. You can make this a little faster bygiving each character the gifts they liketo have an increased bond gain. This brings your total play time up to 60-70 hours.
How Long Does It Take To Achieve 100 Percent Completion?
The final level of Rune Factory: Guardians Of Azuma, as with every other game, is the 100 percent completion.Apart from the main story and bond quests, this completion involves a lot of other things like:
This aspect of the game’s completion introduces a ton of RNG since it’s largely based on your luck.You might end up getting all the fish and reaching high-level crops quickly, but it can also take you a long time. Overall, to complete the game in its entirety, you’re looking at around 80-100 hours of play time.
Of course, even after fully completing the game, you can keep living your life as a farmer in Azuma for an unlimited amount of time.
