Nintendo Life writes: "What Rune Factory Frontier does, it does amazingly well. The idea of merging the Harvest Moon series with dungeon crawling turned out sublimely, as did the transition the series underwent to the big screen. For gamers thirsting for an over-the-top, hardcore experience on Wii, Rune Factory Frontier may be the way to turn. While it's certainly not a traditional entry in the main Harvest Moon series, it does prove to be a very deep and engaging farming and social simulation game, with enough dungeon crawling antics thrown in to keep you happy for a very long time".
