Brighter Shores

Really genuinely bad. Huge disappointment from the original devs of RuneScape. I'd say the player numbers make this obvious. Over 17k peak around launch and they can't even hit 200 players anymore on a free game. Don't play this expecting any of the things you like about RuneScape.

I decided to come check the game out. I haven't played it since release of Early Access almost two years ago at this point. Honestly, I am just very confused and cannot recommend it at this current point of time. First and foremost, not a massive fan that privacy settings turn off all interactions with other players by default. I hadn't realized this was a thing initially and I just thought no one was typing. Turns out after I found this out, I was able to see that there were actually a few people around. Gathering resources feels way too sluggish. Eels were alright, as there were six of them in a confined area, but as I moved on to Bass, it was excrutiating. There were three spawns, once you gathered from one source, it'd disappear and take around 20-30 seconds to respawn. It's just not very enjoyable at all. My biggest pet peeve of this game so far, "Milestone Levels". From my limited understanding, once you get to Level 50 in a skill which takes AGES, you get reset to level 00 and get a "Milestone" Level which is sort of like a Prestige from my understanding. Now, I'm not sure if you ACTUALLY get reset or not BUT my main complaint here are the restrictions that are placed on…

Absolutely horrible game. The fact that the game loads in chunks is just weird and very unappealing. Gameplay is clunky.

This is a baby game, for babies. There is no adventure here, because it's way too safe. I feel like I'm on rails, and I don't control my own destiny. My character can't just pursue a path I choose, because you are basically forced to play in certain ways. You can't fight enemies that are too hard for you??? And why do the enemies I was handily beating suddenly start beating me when I level up? So stupid, it completely invalidates my sense of progress. There is no player economy. This game had a lot of potential, but I fear it may be too late.

take runescape, remove everything fun, and then push that. its just not good

I don't think this can be found fun