
- 80/100
- Players10 ratings
More scores
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 79/100
- GameFAQsJust Right
- 3.5/5
- Player reviews
- 80% positive32,920 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Runs on
- Windows
- Price
- US$29.99
Where to get it

2025 · Jagex · Adventure · Role-playing
RuneScape: Dragonwilds
On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.
- Released
- 15 April 2025
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch 2PlayStation 5WindowsXbox Series X/S
- Genres
- AdventureRole-playingSurvival sandbox
- Developers
- Jagex
- Publishers
- Jagex
- Series
- RuneScape
- Perspective
- Third person
- Themes
- ActionFantasySurvival
- Age ratings
- PEGI 16ESRB T
- Languages
- Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain)
- Copies sold
- 1 million as of 2025-12-31
- Time to beat
- 34hmain story100hcompletionist
About
RuneScape: Dragonwilds is an open-world survival game. It is a spin-off from the MMORPG RuneScape, taking place within the same fantasy world of Gielinor, in a specific continent called Ashenfall. It was developed by Jagex and it launched in early access for Windows on April 15, 2025.
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Gameplay
RuneScape: Dragonwilds is a cooperative survival game for one to four players. Players can level up their skills and craft items, with more advanced skills and abilities becoming available to players once they achieve higher skill levels. The gameplay will also feature a strong focus on magic abilities, with spells being used for combat and more mundane tasks such as woodcutting. Players will have the option to set up bases across the land to store their equipment, and Lodestones can be used for fast travel across the world.
Players will be able to fight dragons, and a farming skill will allow players to grow their own crops. There will be a Creative mode allowing players to build, and a Hardcore mode where enemies will be harder to defeat.
Development
RuneScape: Dragonwilds was first announced on March 31, 2025. It then launched in Early Access on April 15, 2025. On June 5, 2026, Jagex announced the full release, including console release, would be on September 15, 2026.
Reception
The Early Access version of RuneScape: Dragonwilds has received mixed to mildly positive reviews from critics. GamingBible.com awarded it a score of seven out of ten, saying "However, due to its lack of originality and some frustrating features, Dragonwilds struggles to stand amongst the greats and as a result, could easily be cast aside by fans of the genre."
IGN Benelux awarded it a score of 6.5 out of ten, praising it for staying true to the core elements of RuneScape while criticising the relative lack of innovation. David Jagneaux at Forbes praised the gameplay flow and the nuances of the skills, in addition to its familiarity to the early RuneScape game, saying, "I haven’t actively played RuneScape in many, many years but I still got a nice surge of nostalgia booting this new game up for the first time." Laura Bergin at PCGamesN also felt the game was generic, saying, "For now, however, Dragonwilds doesn't quite separate itself from the survival crowd."
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