Great game, good mobile experience

This game is fantastic. The free experience offers hundreds of hours of content, and opting into the membership will expand that to thousands of hours. There’s a wide variety of things to do, from quests to boss fights, and over 25 skills to train. Most of it offers players the freedom to engage as much or as little as they want, with obvious benefits to those who choose a more active approach. Progression feels incredibly rewarding and is the main reason I’ve stuck around with this game for so long. The main problems come from the fact that this is originally a PC experience that’s been transferred to mobile. It’s a point-and-click style of game, which sounds great in theory. However precision is quite difficult on a mobile device, especially on my phone which is fairly small. The UI is complex on the PC experience, and transferring that to mobile was done about as well as you could hope; but it still isn’t perfect. Many of the buttons are quite small, although this would likely be dependent on the size of your mobile device. But from my experience, I often find myself clicking on the wrong things accidentally, which is a minor annoyance. Overall I’d recommend this game to everyone, but the mobile experience has some clear limitations. Unless you’ve got a big phone or tiny fingers, I’d suggest doing some of the simpler content on mobile, and move to a computer for anything that requires complex and precise inputs.

Great but….no room for abilities/items

The game is fantastic. Mobile experience is great as well but… there is a lack of screen customization. Mobile is very cramped. And unfortunately there are not enough screen buttons for all necessary abilities. I believe you are given only 7 or 8 slots on each side. A couple prayers, + defensives, food, restore, shield and weapon for quick switches. And you easily run out of buttons on your screen. There is room for more buttons!!! Mobile players are at a huge disadvantage in bossing because we can’t macro our abilities to a keyboard. This you really really really need to add more buttons that we can drop abilities/items to on our screen for bossing. There is plenty of room!!!!! And even better just add a plus 1 button feature and let the player drag it anywhere on the screen and lock it. So he or she can add as many buttons as they want and wherever they need on their screen. Yay I can now have all my prayers, my freedom, shield, reso, weapon switch for nex, my food, my super restore, and yay room for a couple thresholds so I don’t have to be a full revo noob. And maybe room for a switch. Wow! I can finally play almost, and barely like a pc player. Until then. I can’t do jack crap on mobile for hard bosses. Huge let down.

A Dated Game Trying To Stay Relevant

RuneScape has been around for at least 20 years and though it can be fun it brings its age-old issues with them; old jarring models clashes with newer graphics; quests are clunky and a HUGE chore (even in OSRS). Combat is fun AT FIRST, but later on (even with max skills and gear) you can still have a hard time on enemies that are below your level making you wonder why even bother 99 some skills. The goal of RS is leveling but for some skills like Farming and Runecrafting it’s frustrating because despite the features to level LATER ON the first 20 levels are frustrating to get to with a clunky learning process that can shoo new users away. The world is big but is at war with itself as the game evolves. As RuneScape try’s to modernize major cities, key NPCs and enemies as well as weapons and armor REALLY show their age, which wouldn’t be a problem for a retro feel but with micro transactions and seasonal events that reward cosmetics then you start to wonder why the developers would focus on that instead of fixing their world and NPCs at the very least the player avatar. The games unstructured in a lot of aspects, but it’s still fun. There ARE better MMOs and older players with rose-tinted glasses will say “the grinds part of it” but for those who value their time and don’t want an overly grinding experience look elsewhere.

Game is great but the mobile app could use some work right now.

This game is really good especially as something to do while watching stuff. The skilling is afk friendly which is nice most of the time. This is my goto for idle skilling. If I want tediousness I’ll play OSRS. Subscribing gets works for both games on one account which is great. I enjoy them both. Anyway Runescape is a pretty unique MMO and I definitely suggest trying it. You can play a nice chunk if the game for free. The game can be pay to win if you play on a standard account. I HIGHLY suggest playing ironman on this version of the game. With the smithing and mining rework it’s a lot easier to self sustain in this version than it is in OSRS. Anyway definitely give it a shot. Lately the mobile app has been being very odd. It will overheat my phone really bad even if I have the framerate on 35. It will overheat and then crash. Not sure what’s going on but I’ve never had that issue until the latest update. The audio also gets stuttery which is a new issue too. Not sure if it’s crashing because it’s overheating my phone or if it’s a memory leak issue or what. Hopefully it’s fixed soon.

Good game, Meh experience

I’ve been waiting for the RuneScape app to be put on the IOS store for a long time. I felt like RuneScape makes sense on a mobile device and I think it’s the perfect place for RuneScape to grow its user base. There are however a couple of things I think need to be worked on. The most important thing right now is the clicking of buttons in the game. It’s VERY difficult to click buttons in the game. The game experience suffers as a result. It’s difficult to do much of anything the game needs you to do. Things that should be simple like messaging friends, navigating menus, or simply even closing a few of them are incredibly tedious and rage inducing to have to deal with. I understand there needs to be some compromises in this mobile version of the game but it genuinely feels like I’m fighting to play a game I normally enjoy relaxing with. The old school runescape app handles much better and I think I would prefer playing that over this on a more consistent basis but if this game can manage to fix some of its UI issues I can easily see myself playing this much more and I think I could get more friends to play this RuneScape version too. I hope those issues are resolved because I really do wanna give this a 5 stars but cannot in its current state.

A game without an identity of it's own

Ask someone one of the first things that comes to mind when they think of RuneScape and one of the first things they'll mention is the crude, iconic graphics. Well, RS3 ditched those for a style that's unrecognizable, hackneyed, and in it's most recent iteration, mimicking fortnite. A game is more than it's graphics, but one of the second things people remember about the game is the D&D style combat where you roll for hits and damage. That too is gone in favor of a convoluted combat system that STILL suffers from walls of confusing ability text and a mess of action bars that no tutorial explains how to use. The point is that RS3 is absolutely nothing like the game you remember and if you're here for the nostalgia bug then you'll want to d/L OSRS. RS3's shameless mtx promotions , lack of style, and toxic community leave a lot to be desired. Honestly far from the worst thing you can play on mobile, but that's not saying much. Ability bars are annoying enough to use on PC let alone mobile, so doing anything other than AFK skilling is essentially impossible due to the clunky controls. It's worth a shot if you've never played the game before, but don't go into it expecting much and forward all concerns/complaints to Reddit because that's the only way to actually get a hold of customer support.

Amazing MMMORPG

This is one of the greatest MMOs out there. To finally see it come to mobile is a joy for me, as so many people overlook this game now because of its development. This game has come so far since the release of EoC and the departure from the Old-School format. EoC was a big point of issue for a lot of players in the past, but the Revolution update completely streamlined the combat again and made it much more enjoyable in both afk combat and more challenging encounters. Not only that but this game has had new skills, locations, bosses, quests and all kinds of content added in over the years. For old players; If EoC was the reason you quit back then, give the game a try now and you might find it can scratch that itch that Rs2 combat used to scratch. For new players give this game a try because it’s an amazing and fun MMO that you can find many hours of adventure in. This is already a game you can sink a lot of hours into, but if you want a real challenge, give Ironman mode a go and really see what it’s like to journey to max level! Don’t forget this game is on Steam as well as its own Client!

Greed

The recent transparency from the development team felt like a nostalgic Time Machine back to when I first played this game when it was still run by the Gower brothers. The release of the new Necromancy skill was a blast and the community was being listened to. Or so i thought… That lasted for a month and then the predatory monetization activity started again. The release of the “new” Hero Pass is a slap in the face of the players who have put up with an increasingly hostile environment over the past decade at a minimum. This sets a dangerous precedent of directly selling game altering benefits if you’re willing to pay enough. Jagex has made it clear that they would rather have this complex MMO compete in the P2W mobile gaming space than cater to the characteristics that made it a unique and lovable game for decades. It’s a shame to see the continued evolution into exploiting the last remaining players through MTX. The player count has been declining since EOC and the players that stuck around have been treated like frogs placed in a pot that is slowing being brought to a boil. With the most recent hero pass update it would appear the boiling point has finally occurred, but unfortunately for Jagex the frogs were able to feel the change and are now jumping out of the pot.

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