Jagex has introduced a fourth RuneScape MMO at RuneFest 2026. It at the moment goes by the working title RS4, although most individuals are already calling it RuneScape 4. The sport is being inbuilt Unreal Engine, and Jagex hasn’t mentioned which model. It is the primary numbered follow-up since RuneScape 3 arrived in 2013. A CGI teaser proven on the occasion has a city in a inexperienced valley, floating islands, and a dragon rider being attacked by a three-headed dragon. Jagex says RS4 is in early growth with its personal devoted crew, and that it’s nonetheless “a couple of years away.” The studio additionally is not prepared to speak about platforms.
Apparently, RS4 did not begin out as a full recreation. It started as an growth for RuneScape: Dragonwilds, Jagex’s Unreal Engine 5 survival recreation, and apparently grew into its personal venture after playtesters requested for a extra conventional MMO tackle that setting. The growth was reportedly deliberate for 2027. The story is claimed to select up years after Dragonwilds and begins in the identical area, Ashenfall. RuneScape 3, Outdated Faculty RuneScape, and Dragonwilds will all maintain working alongside it. After all, we do not know but how monetization will work or whether or not any progress carries over from RuneScape 3, and I believe it will be some time earlier than we see actual gameplay.
