There are many characters to romance inRune Factory: Guardians of Azuma, each with individual likes, dislikes, loves, and hates when it comes to gifts. Although gifts aren’t the only way you can romancebachelors and bachelorettes in the game, it’s another way you can raise your bond level with them. However, giving gifts inRune Factory: Guardians of Azumais also a bit of a guessing game, with only the odd hint available about what each character might like or dislike.

Knowing what gift to give can also be helpful on special days like birthdays, or if you just want to get to know a specific character’s preferences more. If you’re struggling with what gifts each character and need a helping hand, ourRune Factory: Guardians of Azumagift guide details the best to give to every romanceable bachelor and bachelorette, including the majority of their most liked and loved gifts. It also details all character birthdays and gifts for certain non-romanceable characters in the game.

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This guide contains character spoilers for Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma, so proceed with caution.

Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma Complete Gift Guide

How to Give Gifts in Rune factory: Guardians of Azuma

To give a villager a gift inRune Factory: Guardians of Azuma, you must first progress through the main story quests tounlock the ability to give gifts, which happens early on in the game. Afterward, you can talk to any villager and select the’Let’s hang out' dialogue optionfollowed by’Gift a gift.' This brings up your inventory, where you can choose an item to give as a gift. You can then view each character’sliked, loved, liked, and hated giftsin theProfilesmenu. If you want to raise your Bond Level with each character, it’s best to only choose liked and loved gifts.

To get most of the loved gifts that are recipes, you will need to level up your friendship level to at least level 6 so you’re able to unlock the ability to cook together. At Iroha’s Teahouse or one of the game’s various Izakaya stations within each village, you can then select the recipe and character with the chef hat icon to unlock special,unique cooking recipes inRune Factory: Guardians of Azumato give as gifts, such as Feast of the Heavens, Biggest Fan Sandwich, and Chocolate House, to name a few. Therefore, it helps to have all villagers unlocked and a bond level of 6 with most of them if you want to unlock all possible gifts.

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The tables below detail many of thebestgifts inRune Factory: Guardians of Azumafor each character, detailing their liked and loved gifts.

Best Bachelor Gifts in Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma

There areeight Bachelorsyou can romance inRune Factory: Guardians of Azuma, with the best bachelor gifts as follows:

To get more cooking recipes, it also helps to find and activate most of thefrog statues inRune Factory: Guardians of Azuma, as many of these reward cooking recipes in addition to crafting ones.

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Best Bachelorette Gifts in Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma

There are alsoeight romanceable BachelorettesinRune Factory: Guardians of Azuma, with their loved and liked gifts detailed in the table below. One of these includes Kaguya, who is not included in the table below as this is the character I played as:

When giving gifts inRune Factory: Guardians of Azuma, it also helps to have ahealthy supply of cropsgrowing in each village, so you always have plenty of ingredients on hand. It also helps to ensure you have villagers assigned to all possible merchant buildings, along with specific, suitable jobs like fishing to net more ingredients for you. Lastly, it’s also best to check if you’ve crafted all the food production buildings to save time searching for ingredients, including ones like the Vinegar Distillery.

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Best Gifts for Non-Romanceable Characters

There are also several non-romanceable main characters that you can still give gifts to inRune Factory: Guardians of Azumaas detailed in the table below:

It’s important to note you can only give one gift to each character per in-game day. If you choose to give a villager a gift, it also locks you out of the other social options in the ‘Let’s hang out’ dialogue option for that day. However, if you give a gift, you can still chat to a character at least once afterward on the same day by choosing the ‘Let’s chat’ dialogue option.

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All Character Birthdays in Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma

It can also be helpful to note in the game’s calendar when each character’s birthday is, so you don’t miss out on the opportunity to give a special birthday gift. All character birthdays inRune Factory: Guardians of Azumaare listed as follows:

Autumn Birthdays:

Winter Birthdays:

To give a villager a gift on their birthday, speak with them and choose the ‘Let’s hang out’ dialogue option followed by ‘Celebrate Birthday.’

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