
RuneScape is a high fantasy open world MMORPG. Explore an ever changing and evolving living world where new challenges, skills, and quests await. Featuring unprecedented player freedom, you choose how to play, adventure, and grow.
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Journey into the Sixth Age of Gielinor and discover a fantasy world deep with legend and lore. Gielinor's people may be thriving, but the Elder Gods still scheme. The clouds are darkening and war looms. Experience a fantasy online world 19 years in the making.

It's up to you. Will you explore the world with friends, or seek your fame and fortune as a lone adventurer? Whether you’re engaged in daring quests, quietly tending to your farm, risking it all against a high-level boss or spending a night at the circus, RuneScape is the perfect second-screen game. Play how you want – the choice is yours. What type of hero will you be?

With a world that’s been growing for an incredible 19 years, RuneScape continues to thrill players with an adventure unlike any other. With 270 million installations and cross-playability on PC and mobile, join the hundreds of millions of people who have explored the fantastic and mystical world of Gielinor.

Make friends – and maybe sometimes enemies – with a rich roster of memorable NPC characters. From lovable companions and friendly rogues, to deceitful villains and vengeful gods, the many faces of Gielinor offer a deep fantasy experience unlike anything else.

Visit dozens and dozens of unique and striking locations, from the medieval castles of Burthorpe and the tranquil harbours of Catherby, to the dangerous barren expanses of the Wilderness or the tropical reaches of Anachronia. Own your own port! Run your own farm! Make a pretty penny trading with players at The Grand Exchange, and keep your exotic wares safe in the Bank.

With 29 skills to master, what will you become? Will you be one with nature by perfecting Woodcutting, Fishing, Herblore and Cooking? Or would you prefer to be more creative with Crafting, Farming, Smithing and Construction? Or perhaps your tastes lay elsewhere – with Hunting, Divination, Invention or Runecrafting? Or maybe your soul yearns action, and you’ll take to Magic, Summoning, Slayer and Dungeoneering!

Do you want to get up close and personal with a sharp blade in your hand? Or will you take a tactical approach and attack from range? Or perhaps your skills are more mystical, and you prefer the arena of magic? Fight a dazzling assortment of foes including an unimaginable array of epic bosses. From demons to dragons and rock monsters to serpents, nightmares beyond your wildest imagination lay in wait.

RuneScape can be played free, but also offers optional membership that unlocks even more thrilling content, including 8 additional skills, over 120 extra quests and access to the entire game world map! Check out the Steam DLC Bundles Membership Access offers featuring launch exclusive Steam cosmetic items and special rewards.

Add your unique voice to our vibrant RuneScape community. Enjoy a strong connection to RuneScape's independent development team by joining them for regular livestreams, and share ideas on the forums. We shape RuneScape together!
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Compared to inflation this companies greed is ♥♥♥♥♥♥. If you like being treated like a cow ready to be milked - sign up... If you search up Jagex you wont be suprised to find them a greedy unfriendly corporation with a need to please their investors with increasing profits milked from their fanbase ~~ competitors by comparison such as blizzard in the mmorpg genre are amazingly better by not hiking prices like *plastic* addicts looking for a new high/fix/(customer friendly adjustment) in stock prices...
here is a perspective from someone who didnt play as a kid and wanted to try the game. This game is cool, leveling feels rewarding to me and there is a decent amount of stuff to do BUT i have no idea how people have the nerve to say that this game can be reasonably played without the subscription. Most of the games content, in the form of new entire chunks of the map are behind this subscription. Meaning you can explore a sliver of what the games has to offer as a free to play player. There are even skills and gear you cant craft unless you are a member. Additionally even if you are in a area that isnt locked to you, there are even quests there locked behind paywall. Despite being a ancient game from 99 they have the nerve to ask for $15 a month for the subscription. This is the greed they talk about in the bible. If this game had come out today exactly how it is now, this game would be crucified. Everything feels dated which is fine but $15 is way too high. i wouldnt even consider it until it was in the $5-$7 range, this game is not world of warcraft and the fact that they believe that they bring the same amount of content as WoW to justify the membership cost sickens me.
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This and every other Pro feature is free until October 20, 2026. A free account is all it takes.
Languages: English, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil
Hours played at review time, across 357 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Trying to buy a membership that is required to access 90% of game's content using wallet funds results in "Payment refused". Jagex support points me to contact Steam. Steam support points me to Jagex support. Repeat until they just refuse to investigate your case. Researching the issue, players have been encountering this issue at least since 2021 and also received the same circlejerk treatment.
спасибо за 700 орбс
Barely above complete garbage if you don't pay a sub. This game is not worth more than 5 bucks a month. I can't bring myself to pay a sub for this without feeling like an absolute idiot.
I am honestly surprised by runescape3. I quit after EOC many years ago and decided to give RS3 a try again and i'm glad i did. They removed most MTX, and doing ironman feels great to level up. Don't let the toxic players on OSRS influence you to not try RS3. Its a really well polished game that is significantly better than you remember. I personally love both OSRS and RS3.
1. Download game 2. Open it and wait 15 minutes 3. Earn your discord orbs 4. uninstall 5. Happy!
Glad it still works on a Pentium 4, sure it is laggy, but doesn't stop me from chopping trees.
As a free to play player, found out after hitting lvl 50 in the F2P skills, it turns into a slog fest as higher skilled items are locked to member status, and considering Membership can't be bought on the Steam page, you have an even tougher slog reaching the required amount to buy membership in game.
até que é legal, mas desanimei quando descobri que pra explorar o resto do mundo tem que pagar uma mensalidade. se for assim eu jogo logo o World of Warcraft 🤓☝️
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