RuneScape: Dragonwilds Steam Charts & Stats

Game is barely past alpha development-wise yet it's been months since EA release. Pathetic.

combat is important to me and if its this bad in the begining i dont see it improving in the mid or endgame, combat is...really bad

Game was fun, if not unfair at times in certain areas. Do I recommend it? for 30 bucks? no... There are much better, more finished, and better optimized games I can recommend at that price tag. If it's ever on sale for $15, that's worth it. If it's ever on sale for $10, it's an amazing game at that price. I'll play it again once I feel enough updates released. Once I feel like I got my $30 worth, I'll update my review. The game is good otherwise, I really enjoyed the content that is available. It got super laggy at the end around the time I had to kill the dragon because I had decided to spent 15 hours collecting resources to build up a nice decorated base with multiple buildings. The game became so unplayable and laggy, even when im not near the base that I had to take down that base as it was impossible to kill the dragon with all the lag. It has had an update for people to change graphics settings, but im running a 4070 Super, I shouldnt have that much stutter. Anyways, A LOT more content is needed before I feel like I can recommend them at the asking price.

The game concept itself is fun and has TONS of potential to be a great game. But the devs don't deliver. At all. Half the skills aren't even available, combat is clunky, the building isn't as nearly as extensive as it should be, there are very few ways to actually get good gear, and the mobs are way too strong in some parts. Found it incredibly frustrating. Now, for all the lackluster aspects of this game, I DO think this game could be good. It needs MONTHS if not years more development to flesh out some features and do more beta tests with players. All of it had potential, but in its current state, I do not recommend.

just go buy Valheim, Enshrouded or Dune if you haven't played those already, i can't say this game has enough content to warrant its current price, maybe when it completes the road map at the end of next year

Doesn't even have fishing. How you gonna be a Runescape Survival game and not have fishing be the first thing that's in the game.

TLDR: As of July '25, it's a solid 20 - 30 hour experience. Great if you enjoyed Valheim and/or Enshouded and are looking for something similar yet distinct. The world has more personality and powerful magic. Feels like about 1/2 of the game, and the other half should be well-worth the wait! In honesty, I planned to refund the game as I neared my 90 minute mark. I was going through the motions of harvesting, fighting and exploring, around a core experience of frustrating corpse-runs, in what felt like a hollow but brutal imitation of of Enshrouded. Then things got interesting. I realized the magic system of RuneScape: Dragonwilds was designed to empower these survival-game-staples, as I was suddenly unlocking arcane ways to quickly harvest, super-hero-jump up cliffs, and generally make my life easier in many ways, with a quickly-populating radial magic menu. "Is this cheating? No, it's awesome!" It wasn't worth shopping for another survival game, or even checking back in with Valheim or Enshrouded (2 favorites); I'd miss these survival-shortcut-magics too much! I pushed ahead to get my money's-worth and a better taste of what sets this game apart from those other two mentioned titles. The world is handcrafted (like Enshrouded), but not a world left open for the player to terriform (unlike both other titles). While this felt like a drawback at first, I realized it left the world-builders to build a more-interesting world. The few (seamless) zones currently available are each beaming with personality: unique sets with weather, environmental hazards to learn and even utilize, designed combat areas, secrets, hunting grounds, and well designed dungeons with hidden loot and traps to turn on their guardians. The combat really grew on me, but I'll say it was rough for most of my experience. I had to put in the time. THEN I appreciated the previous frustrations through how far I had come! I DID spend a lot of my time trying to make it back to my grave stone, unarmed. Many times I'd find something like a dire wolf had spawned behind me and started chewing my butt, as I was unable to outrun it to retrieve gear... re-spawning again in time for a goblin raid on my base, with a character too tired and too hungry to do anything useful. These "perfect storms" felt too brutal at times, but as I progressed, I learned strategies for each mob, equipped much better gear several times in a few hours, and felt like I had a fair fight as long as I was cautious and took the danger seriously. I imagine it's a hard thing to balance, making this "too hard" vs "feeling adequately dangerous", but I think they got the balance right here! I won't say much about crafting itself, because a lot of this is "if it isn't broke, don't fix it" (at home among the 'Valheims and Enshroudeds'). I will say that being able to build pretty much anywhere on the over world became a common tool in my adventures; which made me feel like there was an unexpected influence from the newer Zelda games. You don't have to formally "make a base" to build, just plop down a foundation with some stairs going up a cliff, or drop a teleporter near a resource node or a dungeon; anything/anywhere you want! I kind of made this island my own, with permanent structures that "solved" areas for me; without cheating or messing up the beauty of these lands. The build-size limits on things like bridges and towers are somewhat modest, but I think that again the balance is just right. As far as progression goes, I think the dev team is doing a great job of offering something that's worth playing through development. What I played felt like a solid and full experience of what I suppose could be about the first half of a full game. As I peeked at the road-map, I don't think I'll have ruined my initial experience by what's coming down the pipeline (later this year and next), or feel like I'll need to start over to get a fuller experience. What's there for the first few areas feels fleshed out, polished, and "complete". Adding more layers later feels like aesthetic frosting, as well as some advanced mechanics, and the gear I'll need to get strong enough to overcome the future areas. Lastly, I love the "events" and really hope to see them built up even more! These were a great, exciting and welcome way to really shake up the genre and add a sense of danger to an otherwise tamable world. Being hunted, raided and having dragon "bombings" throw a little bit of a curve-ball. I'd only hope they can be "more dynamic" and become initiated when I'm not A) respawing at my camp with no gear, B) sorting resources or crafting, or C) already struggling to win a fight. Maybe hit me when I'm going through the motions for too long, or hunting mobs I'm too strong for "reinforcements are inbound"). List of other things I'd like to see, in case the devs are "listening": - more enemy types, with monster-specific drops. Can we get an armor set for each type? If each piece was a very rare drop (or even blueprint for the gear piece), I'd gladly spend hours hunting these camps that I usually avoid. - more magic options. It took me a while to realize that I could set fire runes, not just wind runes for my main staff attack element. I'm not familiar with RuneScape lore, but with all the different rune types and the very appealing magical effects, I'd like to see some other options, with maybe switchable wands, instead of having to set the rune equipped (several elemental wand types, each with different elemental affects on enemies hazards / the world?) -Music design is great! ... with the music ending on the measure after the threat has ended. Feels great! The few I've heard hundreds of times need a couple of friends please! I guess that's it for now! I might tack on to this review after future ("quarterly") content updates.

valheim but with runescape lore and some cool magic abilities. if u already own valheim, dont buy this unless its super super cheap if u have never played valheim, then prob try this its pretty cool +1

Do not buy this game. They made a very bare bones rip off of other crafting games and have a product roadmap all the way out to 2028 for basic additions to BASIC skills. Feels like a money grab that abuses the 'early access' moniker.

Do not buy this game. They released it with nothing. The road map has nothing major planned until next year while the updates just keep getting delayed. This is a scam at the moment. If this game didn't have "RUNESCAPE" in the title, it would have far less positive reviews.