Skip to main content

RuneScape boxart

RuneScape

Platforms

Android
iOS
PC

Initial release Jan. 4, 2001

Developers

Jagex Games Studio

Genres

Action Adventure
Point and Click
RPG
Strategy

Publishers

Jagex Games Studio

RuneScape Feed

A blue armoured knight, an elven archer and a blonde warrior stand from the best MMOs and MMORPGs stand side by side.

Feature

The 10 best MMOs and MMORPGs

Where to play with your massive friends

March 13, 2024 Ed Thorn

Players battle a purple dragon in MMO RuneScape

News

RuneScape makers Jagex are being bought by the multibillion sports giant behind Six Nations and LaLiga

Private equity firm CVC reportedly spends £900m on veteran MMO developers

Feb. 9, 2024 Matt Jarvis

An image of the words Ask RPS on an off-white background

Feature

What was the first game that really grabbed you and dominated your life?

Old_Man_Gaming Asks RPS

Feb. 22, 2023 Katharine Castle

A little rat in an Old School RuneScape screenshot.

Feature

What's better: a level 1 rat, or Alone In The Dark's jacket inventory?

Vote now as we continue deciding the single best thing in games

Aug. 17, 2022 Alice O'Connor

Players putting some strange red magic on a troll in Old School RuneScape.

News

Old School RuneScape is available on Steam now

Blast from the past

Feb. 24, 2021 Imogen Beckhelling

A screenshot of a player in Old School RuneScape, which has primitive 3D graphics.

News

Old School RuneScape is coming to Steam in February

It was already breaking player records last year

Jan. 28, 2021 Graham Smith

RuneScape's devleoper has been bought by a private equity firm

News

RuneScape's devleoper has been bought by a private equity firm

Although a lawsuit contests the sale

Jan. 26, 2021 Graham Smith

RuneScape launched 20 years ago today

News

RuneScape launched 20 years ago today

Two decades down

Jan. 4, 2021 Lauren Morton

I adore every last one of Low Poly Animals' tragically blocky critters

News

I adore every last one of Low Poly Animals' tragically blocky critters

Big Frog? Big Frog.

Nov. 5, 2020 Natalie Clayton

Runescape's developers explain why they chose archaeology as the MMO's newest feature

Feature

Runescape's developers explain why they chose archaeology as the MMO's newest feature

20-year-old MMO adds 2000 years of history

March 30, 2020 Cian Maher

Player wasn't discriminated against by being muted in an online game, US court says

News

Player wasn't discriminated against by being muted in an online game, US court says

Being muted in game isn't a civil rights violation.

Jan. 24, 2020 Lauren Morton

Revisiting my childhood haunt of RuneScape

Feature

Revisiting my childhood haunt of RuneScape

A rune of one's own

Jan. 11, 2019 Lottie Lynn

RuneScape Classic closing down after 17 years online

News

RuneScape Classic closing down after 17 years online

It was almost old enough to vote

May 23, 2018 Dominic Tarason

Podcast: Guilty pleasures and Opus Magnum

Podcast

Podcast: Guilty pleasures and Opus Magnum

Guilty as charged

Oct. 26, 2017 Brendan Caldwell

RuneScape's PvP tournament went badly wrong

News

RuneScape's PvP tournament went badly wrong

Dick Dastardly rides again

Sept. 30, 2017 Dominic Tarason

Have You Played... Runescape?

Feature

Have You Played... Runescape?

Better With Age.

Oct. 9, 2016 Steven Messner

RuneScape Adding Auctions For Banned Players' Stuff

News

RuneScape Adding Auctions For Banned Players' Stuff

Storage Wars-ish style

Sept. 19, 2016 Alice O'Connor

Runescape Marks Anniversary Of 6/6/6 Glitchy Massacre

News

Runescape Marks Anniversary Of 6/6/6 Glitchy Massacre

It's a massacre!

June 6, 2016 Steven Messner

RuneScape Gets Fancier And Faster With NXT Engine

News

RuneScape Gets Fancier And Faster With NXT Engine

Goodbye, Java!

April 19, 2016 Alice O'Connor

News

Old-School Runescape Adds Brand New Continent

A whole new woooooorld

Jan. 9, 2016 Hayden Dingman

Runescape Gets Raids, Giggling Cats

News

Runescape Gets Raids, Giggling Cats

Furry friends

July 6, 2015 Philippa Warr

RuneScape Legends Takes A Card From Hearthstone

News

RuneScape Legends Takes A Card From Hearthstone

Oct. 13, 2014 Philippa Warr

Runescape Is Back, Back! BACK!

News

Runescape Is Back, Back! BACK!

July 24, 2013 Jim Rossignol

Runed Awakening: Runescape 3 On 22nd Of July

News

Runed Awakening: Runescape 3 On 22nd Of July

July 5, 2013 Jim Rossignol

Runescape Still Exists, Is Getting A Threequel

News

Runescape Still Exists, Is Getting A Threequel

March 23, 2013 Nathan Grayson

RuneScape Gallery

1 of 4

Caption

Attribution