Nostalgia and long-term attachment
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“25-year-old game and still playing the same game on an account I have had for over 20 years, still feels like home.”
Steam review · 3823.1 h played ↗
RuneScape ®
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 88%Very Positive · 88%Jagex Ltd2020MMORPG · RPG · Adventure
The verdict
A huge, grindy, nostalgic MMO with endless skills and quests, relaxing to idle in. Skip it if you dislike heavy membership paywalls, point-and-click grind, or Jagex's recent decisions.
Great for
Nostalgic veterans and patient players who like relaxed, AFK-friendly skilling and long-term progression
Main risk
Most content is locked behind a pricey membership, and Jagex's recent moves (Reignited, rates) anger the community
What changed in the last 30 days
76 recent reviews
Recent negatives focus on the newly announced Reignited mode, which splits veterans from new players and requires a new subscription. Also complaints about Jagex's trust issues, with grandfathered rates. Fairly confident.
76 recent reviews
What players love
Enormous amount of content
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“This game has a million things to do. Quests, check, combat, check, skilling, check, magic, check, dungeons, check, BBEGs, check....”
Steam review · 3186.6 h played ↗
MTX removal and better direction
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“They got rid of all the BS microtransactions that plague the game for so long.”
Steam review · 867.6 h played ↗
Great quests and story
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“RuneScape's quests are full story adventures with puzzles, dark humor, unexpected twists and deep lore.”
Steam review · translated · 0.9 h played ↗
Relaxing, AFK-friendly grind
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 positive reviews
“The best second monitor game around. Soooo much to AFK.”
Steam review · 198.8 h played ↗
Satisfying number-go-up progression
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 positive reviews
“Numbers go up and you get a dopamine release every time.”
Steam review · 1113.3 h played ↗
What players complain about
Most content locked behind membership
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“95% of the game is locked behind membership. When you lock most of the game, free2play is just a demo.”
Steam review · 31.3 h played ↗
Dated, boring, grindy gameplay
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“it's a sequence of things to click on that make a number go up, absent of any personality or thoughtful interaction or challenge”
Steam review · 4.3 h played ↗
Reignited split angers veterans
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“This will slowly lead to the death of the veteran economy and force us to swollow the poison pill they are presenting us with”
Steam review · 1 h played ↗
Unfair bans, hacks and poor support
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“I was Perma-Banned and my appeal was denied for botting and macroing. I have never done either”
Steam review · 24.9 h played ↗
Jagex broke grandfathered rates and price hikes
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“Jagex chose to revoke the grandfathered membership rates many of us were explicitly told we would retain by maintaining Premier membership.”
Steam review · 4288.2 h played ↗
Account linking and login problems
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“Cant change profiles and this one is linked to steam.”
Steam review · 13.9 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable
Minimum
OSWindows 10 or later
Recommended
OSWindows 10 or higher
ProcessorIntel i3-6100 / any AMD Ryzen CPU
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsGeForce GTX 600 series, Intel UHD Graphics 610, AMD Radeon R7 260
Storage8 GB available space
OSWindows 10 or later
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