I'm curious if there are any recent players willing to share their thoughts on the game. I saw some footage of a new update where people were running around with an abyssal whip and that awoke something in the long dormant "I really want a singleplayer Runescape" corner of my brain.
The abby whip is pretty much the only runescape flavor that was in game at launch. It was so overpowered that it destroyed all the content that existed at that point (Though you needed at-the-time near-max combat to damage the abyssal demon unless you cheesed it), and still is pretty powerful now. There's slightly more stuff now, but it's still missing quite large swathes of content as is inevitable with these early access games, with tons of "it's coming soon!" like the other half of most skills that are ingame, as well as other skills they've talked about (Fishing, prayer, agility). The newest skill is farming, which is as you'd expect, plant shit, water it, cure diseased ones. Get resources, use them largely in cooking, but also in other things as secondary and tertiary resources for weaponry and armor.
They're updating it once every quarter, and for the foreseeable future intend to as well (as far as their roadmap which stretches to eoy 2026 states, which will be 1.0 and console launch [stated 'other platforms' so possibly mobile too?]). New enemies they add are fun to fight, but get boring fast as they're all quite similar and bland, there's only so many ways to do humanoid shambling enemies, especially in an undead themed area like fellhollow. There's much less intense grind or RNG locked shit, lots of resources you need are always dropped or are in the 1/40 range for the "super rares" thus far.
They've added in a secondary resource in the new area, and with it the Death NPC. If you play RS3 you'd know you can get reaper points from beating certain mobs/bosses and trade them in for goods (think slayer points but just for different mobs). This one is the same. You collect soul fragments and can get a not-proselyte armor (white armor), not-robinhood set, and a necromancer set, as well as some colored capes and jewelry recipes ('trinkets', big passive boosts just like jewelry in rs)
It's a fun game. I think $20~ is the right price point for it right now. I think it will get more expensive when fishing tentatively comes out in march, and then another price increase at EoY 2026 when 1.0 drops. I think after 1.0 they abandon it entirely or drop update cadence to once every 6 months or year. I think by mid 2027 it ends up on humble bundle or as a giveaway if you buy premier membership in rs.
Great with friends, just like valheim was though. Also no dedicated servers yet which is stupid as fuck, but again, one of those things they promise is "coming soon" and keep scooting back, currently intended to drop with fishing in march.
