is the next installment in the Rune Factory series from Natsume, but it's hard to tell that from just looking at it. The series started as a game with elements of a fantasy RPG, even carrying the title «A Fantasy » for the first two games.
Over the next few games, the franchise evolved into a fully fledged standalone series of games that merged the farm management aspect of the farming simulator genre with the monster hunting, crafting, and world-building of an RPG.
Though the series has evolved over the years, one thing has remained the same: the setting. Sure, all the games took place in different areas, but all the locations were firmly rooted in the Western fantasy world.
For the first time in the series' 18-year run, isbringing the series away from the West and into a fantasy land based on Japan.
through all took place in one location, the Kingdom of Norad. There's no official map of the kingdom, but each game reveals more information about it through its story and locations.