
This decision isn’t cosmetic female characters enjoy access to an exclusive quest (“Recruitment Drive”) on Tutorial Island. A lot of our recommendations come down to avoiding grinding wherever possible, and one of the first steps you can take is to choose “female” during character creation. Old School RuneScape, with its profusion of individually-leveled skills, has tremendous potential for being far grindier than the average modern game. Grinding is an issue in virtually all RPGs.
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If you managed to snag an Android download of Old School RuneScape, you may be interested in our beginners’ tips: Jagex says the iOS version is still struggling to achieve “continuous, uninterrupted service.” The developers are committed to bringing the game to Apple devices their delay is simply due to wanting to deliver a proper RuneScape experience. The iOS build is significantly less stable than the Android version.
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The absence of an iOS version of Old School RuneScape seems to be due to software issues. Increases could be starting as soon as next week, and it’s reasonable to expect the total population to grow organically. Jagex noted that they will be bumping up the number of available installs steadily as they grow more confident in the software. After all, there’s not really any doubt that tons of gamers will be interested in the game. Since the game is still technically being tested, it makes sense that the developers want to keep the population manageable. This is an understandable (if potentially frustrating!) step. The developers are also capping the number of mobile downloads of Old School RuneScape. The beta is only open to people with an active RuneScape membership. There are some qualifications on this nostalgia trip. Eurogamer says that it should show up on iOS devices “later in the summer.” For right now, this treat is Android-only.

For right now, what we have is the public beta version of classic Old School.

Jagex, the developer of the mobile version, promises that over time, OSRS will get the same incremental improvements that were made to the original RuneScape after that date. Functionally, it’s a near-perfect flashback to the state of the game circa 2007. The official name of the game is Old School RuneScape. And for some of us, the biggest nostalgia news of all was that classic RuneScape popped back up, now on Android devices. When it comes to video games, 2018 rolled over us like a tidal wave of nostalgia.
