Jagex is providing long-time, lapsed, and new RuneScape gamers a clear slate with RuneScape Reignited.
Introduced on the identical RuneFest 2026 occasion the place Jagex revealed its fourth RuneScape MMO in-built Unreal Engine, RuneScape Reignited is a brand new everlasting character kind launching on 2 December.
Jagex outlined the main points in a weblog put up entitled “RuneScape As It Was All the time Meant To Be”, explaining how Reignited characters include a brand-new economic system and hiscores with no paid development out there.
“It performs out in the identical worlds that each one present characters are already taking part in in, and all Reignited characters can have free entry to members’ content material for the primary 10 days following its launch,” Jagex defined.
“In the event you’ve ever felt misplaced or left behind in RuneScape, or have been not sure of the right way to come again or the place to start… There genuinely has by no means been a greater time to leap again in or to expertise the complete journey from the beginning – so we have made a purpose to do exactly that,” the workforce wrote.
“Reignited is the fruits of every part that we have now been constructing in the direction of this yr, and but additionally it is the beginning of a model new chapter.”
For brand new gamers, the sport will present a chance to “expertise 25 years of RuneScape, from a brand new shared place to begin”, whereas present gamers get to “see your worlds thriving once more and serving to the neighborhood develop in all instructions. Simply as how Ironman gamers reside amongst present gamers at the moment, Reignited characters shall be a part of your expertise inside Gielinor on daily basis”.
RuneScape Reignited, The Journey Information and the subsequent leap for Remastering RuneScape, will “all arrive in a single replace” on 2nd December.
Jagex has additionally introduced a fourth MMO within the RuneScape sequence. Revealed at RuneFest in Birmingham, the developer introduced the brand new instalment has been in-built Unreal Engine. It additionally confirmed a brand new RuneScape animated adaptation, made in partnership with YouTuber Charlie “MoistCr1TiKaL” White, is on the way in which.
A clone of Outdated Faculty RuneScape briefly appeared on the web this week, till, stoking the ire of the RuneScape neighborhood earlier than being a rapidly shut down.