Right this moment, Jagex has introduced that it is bringing the world of RuneScape into a brand new style: survival. The developer revealed RuneScape: Dragonwilds, a cooperative open world survival sport coming to early entry this spring.
Dragonwilds takes place in Ashenfall, a brand new continent inside the RuneScape universe, the place one to 4 gamers can work collectively to study new expertise, construct camps, develop stronger, and survive in opposition to highly effective enemies, together with tons and plenty of dragons. Ashenfall has two areas, with 5 distinctive biomes, and the potential for extra to be added later post-launch. Although Ashenfall isn’t the identical continent most of RuneScape correct takes place on, RuneScape followers will discover loads of familiarity on the planet, together with some areas which will resemble acquainted locations from RuneScape itself, like a wizard’s tower, or a sure fort…
Monsters can also look acquainted, however include a twist. Whilst you’ll nonetheless see rats, dragons, trolls, cows, and different creatures you may recall from RuneScape, Ashenfall’s wild magic has warped these creatures into unusual, nature-fied variations of themselves with new appearances and fusions with vegetation, thorns, and different wild bits.
Core to survival in Dragonwilds is improvement of expertise, and sure, they embody traditional RuneScape actions like cooking and woodcutting. These expertise can help you work together with the world in varied methods – once I noticed a number of clips of the sport on the Recreation Builders’ Convention earlier this month, I used to be proven clips of a participant utilizing wind runes to achieve the flexibility to glide by way of the air throughout distances. Much more nostalgic was a woodcutting talent that permits gamers to line up a row of bushes and throw a spectral axe to cut all of them down directly. It is a transfer I used to be informed was known as “ax-tral projection.”
RuneScape: Dragonwilds is coming into early entry on PC someday this spring, with hopes for a wider launch (together with console) someday in 2026. Jagex will host a deep-dive reveal of the sport on Twitch on April 15 at 9:00 AM PT.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. You’ll find her posting on BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Obtained a narrative tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.
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