Context: I have ungodly hours in both RS3 and OSRS. In RS3 I got the max cape (maxed all skills) and completionist cape (completed all major content) in around 2016~~ In OSRS I am over 2100 total level.

RS3 is a very complete somewhat-standard MMO experience. It's got the awesome graphics, it's got the familiar ability-based combat, 1000+ hours of handmade questing content and so so much more. Honestly? 2020 is the best time to get in to RS3 - this is a MMO in it's maturity. You're diving in to a MMO that even if you play for 8 hours every day, it'll be YEARS before you exhaust all the content they've added over these past 2 decades. This is the perfect quarantine time-wasting game people.

You've probably heard of OSRS, it's not on steam yet but it's also sick. OSRS, it's basically a reboot of the game from 2007, with the oldschool graphics you remember from math class, janky mechanics based in engine bugs and that some certain something magic charm that you only get if you played it back in the day. And that's sort of the crux for me, is that its hard to recommend to people that didn't play back in the day because they can't get past those early--2000s browser game graphics.

Both are great games - if you've never played Runescape at all I'd recommend RS3 just because a lot of the RS-exclusive jank has been ironed out to make it more accessible, and it easily has 4x the content of OSRS. If you played back in the day and this coming up no steam reminded you of the good ole days, go pick up OSRS.

Context: I have ungodly hours in both RS3 and OSRS. In RS3 I got the max cape (maxed all skills) and completionist cape (completed all major content) in around 2016~~ In OSRS I am over 2100 total level. RS3 is a very complete somewhat-standard MMO experience. It's got the awesome graphics, it's got the familiar ability-based combat, 1000+ hours of handmade questing content and so so much more. Honestly? 2020 is the best time to get in to RS3 - this is a MMO in it's maturity. You're diving in to a MMO that even if you play for 8 hours every day, it'll be YEARS before you exhaust all the content they've added over these past 2 decades. This is the perfect quarantine time-wasting game people. You've probably heard of OSRS, it's not on steam yet but it's also sick. OSRS, it's basically a reboot of the game from 2007, with the oldschool graphics you remember from math class, janky mechanics based in engine bugs and that some certain something magic charm that you only get if you played it back in the day. And that's sort of the crux for me, is that its hard to recommend to people that didn't play back in the day because they can't get past those early--2000s browser game graphics. Both are great games - if you've never played Runescape at all I'd recommend RS3 just because a lot of the RS-exclusive jank has been ironed out to make it more accessible, and it easily has 4x the content of OSRS. If you played back in the day and this coming up no steam reminded you of the good ole days, go pick up OSRS.