Developer Jagex is celebrating the latest launch of survival crafting recreation RuneScape: Dragonwilds. In a put up on LinkedIn, Jagex CEO Jon Bellamy revealed a few of the milestones that the sport has hit since its launch earlier this month.
“The response from gamers, the RuneScape neighborhood, and the business up to now has exceeded even our most hopeful expectations,” wrote Bellamy on LinkedIn. “And it’s jogged my memory simply how a lot video games — and the individuals behind them — can nonetheless shock, and encourage us in essentially the most surprising methods. It’s the alchemy of this business.”
In line with Bellamy, greater than 600,000 copies of RuneScape: Dragonwilds have been bought up to now, and the sport has additionally hit different community-oriented landmarks, together with being the third most-watched recreation on streaming platform Twitch. On the subject of its reception, the sport is presently sitting on an mixture of Very Optimistic on Steam with greater than 14,000 participant critiques. In line with Bellamy, which means that 84 % of the sport’s critiques on Steam are constructive.
Bellamy has additionally thanked numerous components of the sport’s growth crew, together with growth and design groups led by Jesse America, Richard Turek, Carlos Verlee Vazquez, Robert Spencer Fox-Galassi, and Barry Hoffman. He has additionally thanked Gene Rozenberg and Ashton Mills for main the audio crew that labored on the sport.
“Your creativity and dedication are fingerprints masking each a part of this recreation,” wrote Bellamy. “At Jagex, we delight ourselves on placing our participant communities on the centre of what we do. Throughout the launch I noticed that come to life in essentially the most highly effective approach.”
“To everybody concerned: An enormous thanks. It truly is a privilege to guide such devoted groups, and I’m extremely excited concerning the journey forward for Jagex, our individuals and our gamers.”
RuneScape: Dragonwilds is accessible on PC (through Steam) as an Early Entry title, and is priced at $29.99. The studio plans to maintain the sport as an Early Entry title for “so long as it takes.” It has, nevertheless, said that it hopes to do a 1.0 launch a while in early 2026. In the meanwhile, the sport will get extra content material, together with extra methods, spells, and even new expertise solely.
In its present state, RuneScape: Dragonwilds has its first few areas, core survival methods, RuneScape Abilities, and magic survival spells. There’s additionally loads of gear for gamers to craft, in addition to a constructing system that gamers can benefit from to construct out their dwelling base. The title additionally presently options the primary deliberate Dragon boss – Common Velgar – together with a number of dungeons to discover.
In its most up-to-date replace, the sport received some tuning to its occasion methods, with the cooldowns between the Ghornfell Raids being raised from 2 in-game days to 4 days. These raid occasions have additionally seen different modifications, together with a discount in frequency, and different steadiness modifications, just like the variety of meteors in Velgar Meteor Barrages being decreased. Extra technical points and UI bugs have additionally been mounted.
