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I played this game pretty much through on PC, unlocking most zones and finishing most quests. It’s an incredibly good classic RPG that you can really sink your teeth into. A true role-playing game, where you’re a character in a deep storyline, with agency (even though this one is quite linear it’s still very deep). I just started a brand new account and plan to play it through again from the start. Trying to let the quests guide my skill progression this time and limit the skill grinding. My only gripes right now are that the mobile interface has some minor stability issues and doesn’t give the seamless on/off exit/re-entry you expect from mobile. Maybe kick me right out to main login sooner instead of forcing me through a useless dialog telling me the connection failed. Also, I haven’t figured out how to easily customize the order of execution of combat skills. I should be able to drag them across the actual bar rather than having to start from scratch each time I want to reorder them. Also, the threshold and ultimate abilities aren’t being triggered by revolution. I won’t be messing with those huge ability buttons taking up half the interface, and I prefer full automation anyway, so this means only basic abilities for me until it’s fixed.

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!

I see how this game can get very deep and interesting but the mobile experience has been poor for me. Trying to click the small menus and prompts in the interface range from annoying to flat out frustrating. I had to restart the dialogue with turiel at one point for the combat quests 7 or 8 times because I didn’t click the perfect spot, causing me to restart the entire dialogue. The screen is also completely cluttered with a mass of menus and options that is difficult to navigate and manage. It feels less like an immersive rpg and more like an incremental clicker with all the button clicks and distractions. While I was hoping for a bit of a nostalgia trip with this game(I played back in high school) this mobile version left me nothing but frustrated. I think the pc version would probably be worthwhile, but this mobile version is very disappointing for me.

I’m really glad that this game is on mobile now for IOS. And I actually love it for the most part. But trying to private message people is really tough. Whenever I tap on someone’s name on my friends list. The chat box doesn’t even show the persons name I’m messaging. So then when I look at the “All chat screen” , it’ll show me that I sent the message to the wrong person. So then I have to go back to my friends list and hold on to someone’s name and then select to message the correct person. But still when your typing in the chat box. You can’t even tell who you’re messaging until you send the message and check the main chat screen afterwards. I can’t even imagine what boss fighting would be like when someone is trying to private message you. Also I like that it’s easy to tap locations. But when you’re trying to tap icons, the game thinks your trying to tap a location instead. And that can be pretty annoying. Also I feel like the currency pouch should be in a better location below the inventory or maybe somewhere else when you’re actually walking around and playing the game. I hate having to search for things on my screen through icons trying to find the currency pouch. I also feel like it’s hard to tap locations on the mini map. So instead I have to zoom out on my actual game screen and tap on locations in front of me. Overall though I like that it’s on mobile now. But yeah some of those things are really annoying.

I have been a die-hard Runescape fan for 15 years now. I was incredibly excited when I found out that it was going to be put on mobile, and figured I’d be spending countless hours playing this in bed when I didn’t feel like sitting at my PC. Unfortunately, I am not playing it as much as I expected, simply because of the fact that it just doesn’t perform well. Don’t get me wrong, the graphics are just as great as they are on PC and the gameplay is amazing, but clicking buttons in this game takes NUMEROUS attempts before it actually works, particularly on menus. It can become extremely tedious and annoying, especially when you are trying to look at the map or look at quest details. It pains me to give Runescape 4 stars instead of a solid 5, but the mobile app really just needs more work. I just get too annoyed playing it, and much rather play on my PC. Please, Jagex, try to fix this! I want to be able to play more on my phone, and come back to give you the 5 stars.

I’ve played a form of this game for the majority of my life. The best version I’ve played is this version (technically RuneScape 3), notably ON IRONMAN MODE. The issues that come with this game primarily come from microtransactions and over-the-top promotions. However, Ironman mode lets you play the game the way you want to, only limiting you from trading on the global market, which makes everything you earn feel much more rewarding as you’ve earned it by your own work. Also, avoid the subreddit community for this game. It’s really bad. There are some issues with this game that they address that are fair, such as some slow bug fixings and weak bans for exploits. However, the subreddit makes every little issue out to be the end of the world. The game is improving over time and there’s literally thousands of things you can spend thousands of hours on in this game. Let the official wiki help you out, and reach out to players since overall the actual players in the game are very kind.

Let me say as someone who hates mobile gaming and never thought I would play RS on anything other than PC. But color me surprised after a rough first day the app works like a dream, it works better than the PC client for me. I use a small device so clicking can be a little bit of a pain and the player owned ports interface needs a little work, but I reported it and they responded immediately that they will look into it. I am not sure if I feel comfortable doing more intense activities like high end PvM but clues, quests, and general skilling absolutely. It’s the perfect companion piece to the browser game and with a little work I will probably switch to mobile full time. Give it a shot and don’t let those 1st day reviews scare you, was it rough yes but what is important is they resolved it quickly and communicated it effectively.

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.

Old review > 1) The controls are poorly made with no ways to change them it’s tap where you want to go and the game auto attacks for you i seen many MMORPG's with much better controls even the pay to win MMORPG's have better controls then this game 2) Game crashes a lot i am unsure why maybe it’s the servers could be something else but it’s really annoying and needs to be fixed 3) voice acting is ok couldn’t get far sense the game keeps crashing so i can’t speak for the mid and late game voice acting 4) Final thoughts for a company to make a game this well known so badly for mobile shows how little thought and work was put into the mobile version and it’s sad sense it will make people whom never played Runescape to view it poorly i do not recommend this game until it gets its problems fixed that being the controls and lack of ability to change them and the constant crashing. New review > Ok good news is they updated the game it runs much better there’s still things i would change but it’s improved.

I don’t have anything especially negative to say about RuneScape. It looks fun and casual and I like the mobile aspect of playing a MMO where I want. In regards to what I’m about to write, me and my wife are new to Runescape, and apparently there is some history about my critique. We just didn’t enjoy the click-to-move controls. At all. Especially with a lot of menus, but also just because it doesn’t work for us with the sort of game. It’s fine with Diablo, for example, but this is not that sort of game. I even logged in on my PC to check for WASD or controller support. I kept moving the camera when I tried to walk around. I’ll even go so far as to say the pathfinding works good, but the controls make it no fun to play. When I googled Runescape and “point and click controls” I found out this has been a frequently mentioned issue for many years. Sorry to say, my wife and I both cancelled our free trials. If a touch joystick were available, we would reconsider.

I have been a long time old school RuneScape fan, and the mobile version runs fantastic! But uh.. this.. this was disappointing.. I figured “hey it’s new.. so it’ll have a few bugs, but they should have most of them out since it was a preorder. They will make sure you can atleast play right? Wrong. It’s like a hoarders house, bugs everywhere! Sure maybe if you don’t tap exactly on the arrows to talk, it won’t register, but it takes like two seconds after pressing the arrow, and if you slightly miss the mark it cancels the conversation and that fat mayor loves to talk in one string. Combat, let’s kill the trolls! Just let everyone have about 5-8 seconds of practice swinging before anyone starts dealing damage or before the troll even notices you. But none the less, I did it. I inspired the city to run the trolls out! Weehee!!! Who are you stranger? No one, Mayor… no one.. because after I made my character as cool as I could, but I guess I was too cool for RuneScape. It was stunned! I was looking so cool the [Done] button would do absolutely nothing. So I gave it a moment to collect itself, and closed out and opened back up the app. You ready for me yet game? 😂 hahahaha.. No. don’t give our hopes up with a date when you can’t have it ready.

Don’t waste your time or money. I was playing for the first time on mobile today and opened up my internet browser to assist in locating where I can mine a specific type of ore. Upon swiping back into the RS app, I was stuck at a black screen that said “Loading..” I closed the app and logged back in, and to my surprise my account was banned due to Macroing which is an unappealable ban... I understand taking security seriously, but your app needs fixed if it thinks that using Google for mining locations is cheating. Good thing I haven’t spent money on the game in a while. I submitted a ticket on their website, but this literally broke my ability to even try the app. Would not recommend. *Edit: Dear Jagex, I’ve already submitted the only ticket I’m able to, as your system doesn’t allow me to submit a ticket for the type of ban I received for switching apps. Your app registered a google search as cheating, which is so ridiculous the Jagex representative doesn’t even believe it happened. Obviously they’re unaware of what could cause this, thanks for making a broken mobile version that cost me my account.

On ipad gen 5, which is the minimum requirement of an ipad to run Runescape. Would be less frustrating if you just prevented gen 5 ipads from downloading it, rather than being able to play five seconds at a time before crashing. Runescape isn’t worth the time it takes to boot up the PC, but I’d happily play it on mobile. If you’d quote proper requirements for it, anyway… Reply to dev response: “Check for updates, lol” was the equivalent to what was said. Ah, yes, my bad, it MUST be my fault your game crashes and is poorly optimized. Let me just check for updates as you requested… oh wait, I was competent enough to check for updates AFTER multiple crashes but BEFORE commenting here? Huh. Interesting. Yeah, doll, that’s generally the first action taken before complaining. To add to the list of garbage, subbing changes your task Yak Track Task! So after subbing to get to higher level runespan to complete this GARBAGE task, I find you’ve now CHANGED my current task and reset the progress! Y’know. The whole reason I subbed. To complete that garbage task. And now you’ve screwed me. But you’ve got my money, right?

Soon after downloading and playing RuneScape. I began to receive annoying scam marketing phone calls from all over the world around the clock to my home phone and pornographic texts to go to pornographic websites to my kids cell phone. Turns out that Jagex sells your personal information to anyone. If you try to opt out from this on Jagex’s website, the process is broken and unable to complete. The website is rigged to not allow you to finish opting out which is illegal in EU law and in US law. I have deleted RuneScape in hopes that the unsolicited, annoying and pornographic scam communications will end. It is a shame, RuneScape had great potential. But a company that will sell your information to scammers and solicitors of pornography so they can contact underage children to lure them to their website is disgusting to say the least. Had I known Jagex sold my information without care to scammers and pornographers, I never ever would have let my kids play this game. I would rate this game 0 stars if I could just for this.