At the moment, I advise against buying it. The game is only a small fraction complete and suffers from the usual bugs and design flaws:

- Frequent crashes, as is typical of the Unreal Engine, especially when teleporting.
- Forced motion blur and excessive bloom, overall a totally blurry view.
- Performance is abysmal, not acceptable for the graphics offered.
- No pause function in single player.
- Tiny stacks and even tinier inventory to artificially stretch the playtime. Add to that the various types of meat and fur that clutter up the inventory but all produce the same end result when crafting.
- No options to customize anything to your own play style.
- Target-following arrows and spells from enemy ranged fighters.
- Very few enemy variations.
- Useless loot from all enemies. Most only drop a few scraps of standard resources.
- The skill trees don't offer much; some aren't even active.
- Very small game world, and even the suggested expansions on the map don't add much space.
- Generic dungeons with the same enemies over and over again.
- Exploring doesn't make sense, since there's nothing to discover. So you just complete the main quest once—that's it.

At least the building system is pretty solid, with building elements of varying sizes. But here, too, you'll encounter the typical weaknesses, e.g., with the snap points.

In 2-3 years it might look better, but currently not recommended. The price for what is offered is absolutely not appropriate.

I felt like my eyes were failing while looking at this game, there was a constant fuzz that i could not get rid of no matter what setting i used. I had to refund because the game gave me a headache. Thats not an exaggeration or a lie either.

Runescape: Dragonwilds is a survival game built around Runescape on the forgotten continent of Ashenfall. Gather your party to defeat the Dragon Queen.


This game can be played co-op with up to four friends but I chose to play it solo. It is your typical open world survival in terms of mechanics with crafting, gathering resources and building elements. Using magic plays a key role in this game. As you level you’ll gain some cool spells. Some let you jump higher or imbue your weapons with elemental damage, some are resource related and some, like the temporary sleep shelter, allow you to sleep anywhere while adventuring.

The movement mechanics feel good (running, jumping, dodging). Combat is okay for the most part, the AI is responsive and gets challenging at later stages. The dragon will fly overhead every now and then and spew poison at you. Just avoid it as poison takes your health down fast. You can also be hunted by raiding parties of goblins. They have not attacked my actual house as of yet but they always attack at your main home base. You will hear a war horn sound and a message pops up on the screen to let you know a raid is incoming.

* If you die you respawn in the last bed you slept in (which is what determines your main base)


* The ability to switch to a first person perspective. Currently the game is only in third person.
* Allow us to have a mini map on the hud that can be toggled on and off. As of now it is just a compass.
* Allow us to pin active objectives to the hud
* Please allow torches to stack in the inventory so we can bring a few along and not take up valuable space
* Achievements (I am guessing they are on the list for release but just noting it here)
* Hunger and thirst goes down too quickly, and make higher end foods satiate us longer.
* More decor items. There are lots of crafting items like stoves, sawmill, tannery, etc but I want more casual items to make the home feel more homey. Like sofas, dining tables, more bed variety, paintings or maps you hang up, more rugs (and larger). Also some bathroom stuff like tubs and sinks. Even adventures “have to go” :)
* Traders to buy and sell stuff from. I would love to buy blueprints for weapons, gear and stuff for building.


Settings & features include; camera controls, controls (key binding changeable), graphic settings, audio controls, accessibility and social settings if playing in co-op.


Visually the main character reminds me a bit of the Torchlight art style. I like the world, it is vibrant, saturated and magical. NPC’s have some voice work but mostly noises like mmhmm or uh huh. The goblins and creatures all have their own sounds they make and the dragons roar sounds good.

Here is one of my houses, nothing too fancy at the moment.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3472142961
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3472142872


I normally do not have side quests that really stick with me but one in this game was so beautiful and I hope in the future we get more like it. It is called Heartstrings and it is about an unnamed Elf who has left behind numerous memorial stones spread across the Fractured Plains (the most gorgeous region in the game btw), as they grieve the loss of their late human love. As you progress to each stone a song plays until you reach the final stone. Big props to the writer of this quest, I adored it. And the reward for completion was nice too.


I am really enjoying this game so far and have put a lot of time into the crafting and building part of the game. I do wish we’d have a sandbox mode or when we are in build mode we cannot be attacked. I like to spend a few hours just building up my base and planning my designs. The build system in this game is very responsive and the snap grid works great.

I have never played Runescape so I am not familiar with the game this one is based on. I loved the look of the world and the premise so those are the reasons I tried it out. I do have a wish-list mentioned above and I am sure some of those things are already planned for future releases. As the game is in early access much will be tweaked and changed over the course of time, but what is here is enjoyable and has a good foundation to start with. ⚔️