Rune Factory 4 Special coming west next month

XSEED Games and Marvelous today announced the western release date for Rune Factory 4 Special. It’ll be out on February 25 in North America, and February 28 in Europe and Australia.

Rune Factory 4 Special can be pre-loaded from the eShop starting today. By pre-purchasing the game, you’ll receive access to the exclusive Swimsuit Day DLC. The DLC is also included with the physical Archival Edition.

At launch, players will be able to get their hands on “Another Episode” DLC, which adds illustrated stories for all twelve marriage candidates in both English and Japanese. It’ll be free until March 26. After that, look for it to cost $4.99 / £4.49 / €4.99 / $7.50 AUD.

Rune Factory 4 will support both English and Japanese audio languages as well as text localization in English, French and German. New additions to the Switch release also include a more challenging “Hell” difficulty level and “Newlywed Mode”, which introduces special episodes about living the married life with the game’s twelve eligible bachelors and bachelorettes that also feature new voices and in-game cutscenes.

Here’s a new trailer for Rune Factory 4 Special:

Source: XSEED Games / Marvelous PR