Developer and publisher Marvelous has announced that Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma has reached a major sales milestone across all platforms worldwide.
Per a press release (which is in Japanese, so we're using machine translation), Guardians of Azuma sales have managed to hit 500,000 around the world. As a reminder, the game was released on June 5th, having been delayed slightly from its originally-intended May 30th date.
Guardians of Azuma's sales numbers aren't too shabby when considering that the game, which belongs to a reasonably niche genre in the first place, is only available on PC and Nintendo's Switch family of consoles; at time of writing, there's no PS5 or Xbox Series X|S version of the farming RPG.
If you're not familiar with Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma, it's the latest entry in Marvelous' long-running Rune Factory series, which combines the farming sim aspects of Story of Seasons with RPG-style exploration and combat.
While the game is the latest Rune Factory title, it's technically a spinoff, with Rune Factory 6 still yet to be officially announced. For now, though, this is all the Rune Factory you're getting.
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