Collect your friends and get prepared to spam chat in Lumbridge, adventurers. Free throwback MMORPG Old School Runescape is currently making its way into Steam next month. Mere months after Runescape's younger, contemporary edition made its way to RS Gold Valve's beaches, Jagex this week announced that it would be bringing the nostalgic 2007-era client to Steam February 24th within the match's 20th anniversary.

As per an announcement post on Steam, you'll be able to link existing OSRS accounts to pick up where you left off, if that was last week or even a decade past. If you're new to Runescape, you are going to have the ability to log in directly along with your Steam account. OSRS will be getting all the customary Steam faff also, starting with achievements and introducing trading cards soon after launch.

While pitched as a time capsule of Runescape circa-2007, OSRS is hardly a dead game. The throwback remains plenty busy, breaking its concurrent participant album only last November. The game even has new items, monsters, features along with the occasional new landmass, employing a contributor voting system to guarantee new updates remain in the soul of the older game. Is it reasonable to call a game that's continuing to grow and expand nostalgic? Probably not. RuneScape, like every successful MMORPG, changed a lot over its lifespan and a great deal of players missed its earlier days. Developers Jagex met those players by launching Old School RuneScape in 2013, and they have added and enlarged to it alongside RuneScape ever since.

Last year, Old School RuneScape broke its own documents for concurrent players, together with over 157,000 players online at one time. That's thanks largely to its Leagues - short-term aggressive events for which players have to make new personalities to compete in specific challenges. It is impressive to get a 2013 match (based on a 2007 match ) to continue to be so popular, but it is partially as a consequence of its conservative graphics. RuneScape was beloved by school kids the world over, because it had been among those few games that you could sneakily run on library computers. Now Old School RuneScape will similarly run on virtually anything, such as rusty old smartphones.

RuneScape itself (New School RuneScape?) Started on Steam last year and has a small audience. A classic classic, they say. Runescape developers are attempting to secure more and more people to play the sport. It is one of the best childhood games that's still being played with by around 5000 players each day. Here is an old trailer: Old School RuneScape Steam introduction will deliver a custom-built Steam experience with a dedicated Old School Steam Community Hub, featuring weekly statements, guides, articles, art, and videos, in addition to Buy OSRS Gold membership bundles and achievements.