Runescape and Old School RuneScape appear on Steam for PC and Mac

The classic mmo’s Runescape and Old School RuneScape will be available on Steam October 14, Jagex announced. The franchise has had some 285 million players in nearly two decades, according to the developer.

Steam users can add Runescape to their wish list on the game platform. They will then be notified when the game becomes available in two weeks. Old School Runescap is not on Steam yet, it will be in early 2021.

Runescape offers on Steam achievements, badges and emoticons. The support for trading cards will follow after release. The RuneScape Community Hub will update Steam users weekly on announcements, guides, articles, artwork and videos.

Runescape has so far been available for PC, Mac and Linux from Jagex’s site and for Android in the Google Play Store. Jagex hopes to attract even more users than the 285 million players the franchise had so far with the arrival to Steam.

Jagex introduced Old School RuneScape in 2013 as a continuation of the game as it was in 2007. RuneScape 2 appeared in 2004, which was re-released in 2013 in the form of RuneScape 3. RuneScape originally came out in 2001 and was still playable as ‘Classic’ for a long time, but in 2018 Jagex pulled the plug. RuneScape was the first mmorpg to play for many players.