Worst game I have ever played in my life. Combat is complete trash in this game. Magic rules the game. Bows suck no reasonable way to kill things actually at range with the bow and no way to slow incoming enemies. Bows are WAY too weak.

Melee combat is complete trash. Mobs lock on to you and if you try to roll away they will glide along the ground in their swing animation until they hit you. There is literally zero skill involved in trying to parry with a shield. If you have any sort of swing animation going on then you can't parry. However the enemies can swing at you through their flinch animation from being attacked.

Simply holding your shield up does NOTHING for you. The hit is blocked by the shield but you still take the damage unless you get a perfect parry. Every creature has multiple attack animations all at different speeds so you'd have to play the game for 50 hours in one area to reasonably be able master how to parry the creatures in that area.

So combat just isn't worth being involved in.

As far as the survival side of the game goes. There is literally zero survivability involved. Food/water is WAY too easy to get so it basically just becomes a chore that you have to do pretty frequently instead of being a valuable game mechanic.

Building in the game is terrible currently. Constant camera issues with trying to place building pieces. They attempt to use the valheim structural integrity system but it is poorly implemented. Not that the valheim one is all that amazing to begin with. It is a janky system that could be so much better if done properly.

I have thousands of hours in Ark Survival Evolved and many thousands of hours in the survival genre in general and this is easily one if not THE worst survival game that I have ever played.

Unless you are getting into this game just because it is named Runescape then I suggest avoiding it at all costs.

Even after their changes to the combat system it is still complete crap. This dev team doesn't understand what a good survival game is all about. They are clearly being expected to throw out some shovelware just to have a survival game under their umbrella without having developers that actually enjoy survival games.

I don't personally see this game ever getting any better as both of their "major" updates haven't done anything to fix any of the glaring issues that the game has at all.

Dead game is dead.

This game is a buggy piece of crap. 3 hours spent gathering materials for a large rover to have the thing disappear for ZERO REASON. Quick google search shows that this has been an issue in the game for YEARS and this crap company is too lame to fix it or even have backup saves so you can reload in an attempt to recover your lost items.

How do you make a game like this and have a bug that is this much of a huge deal and not fix it for YEARS? Don't buy this game. Avoid it and it's crappy DLC.

Game is garbage. Has been out for quite some time and their new season is a giant train wreck. Servers lag constantly, game is extremely new player unfriendly. Made it into the 3rd phase and completed all the content the game had to offer even though most of it was extremely buggy.

One of the first bosses that you could get access to when they released hard mode you couldn't even finish the fight because it would bug out if you had 2 or more people in the group. Took days for them to fix it. They literally didn't even bother testing their own content, happened to anyone who tried to do this in a group and happened every single time.... No QA for their team what so ever.

Didn't log into the game yesterday because I was busy with other stuff and then log in today and my thermal tower has just disappeared. It wasn't destroyed, there is no pvp here and no chaosweavers spawn close enough to do any damage. Thousands and thousands of personal materials just gone. They didn't want people littering the area with these towers so they added a system, obviously without testing it so that if people weren't around the towers would despawn. Someone else had the same issue in my "guild". He was out for 2 days and came back to his tower being gone as well.

Tried to submit a ticket regarding the issue and the ticket system just loaded as a white page and would never progress past this. If you care about your time at all then avoid this game.

There is really no way for me to express how broken and disappointing that this game is other than to uninstall it and warn others to avoid this game at all costs. Free to play or not, it's trash and people shouldn't support a company in any way, even playing their "free" game if they don't have the ability to develop any better than this.