RuneScape: The First 20 Years

We’ve partnered with Dark Horse Comics to bring you RuneScape: The First 20 Years, a lavishly illustrated, full-colour, hardcover book filled with insider info about the best game in the world – this one!

Dark Horse recruited Alex Calvin, the founder of PCGamesInsider, to interview all your favourite J-Mods, past and present. They also pored over 20 years’ worth of illustrations, concept art and various other bits and bobs to create an illustrated history of the development of the games over the past 20 years, covering both RuneScape and its precocious younger sibling, Old School RuneScape.

Check out below for a sneak peek of some of the 224 full colour pages in the book.

The main edition comes with a swanky red cover and is available to pre-order now from Amazon (US, UK, CA), Barnes and Noble, McnallyRobinson.com (Canada), or your friendly local comic book stores and bookshops!

Or, for our most dedicated fans, we have the Deluxe Edition, featuring a black cover with foil treatments – very fancy! The final design is revealed below and comes with gilded page edges, a card slipcase, a ribbon bookmark and a hard-backed folio containing two archive-quality art prints.

The first folio print is an iconic Tim and Crunchy illustration. The second, which has just been revealed, is a battle scene from the archives featuring General Graador. Created in 2012 for a series of unused loading screens depicting the God Wars, the note on the illustration reads “The Lesser Gods opened gates between Gielinor and other neighbouring realms and brought into it new races to fight their battles”.

To guarantee your copy of RuneScape: The First 20 Years Deluxe Edition, simply pre-order from the Official Merch Store before April 15th. Some limited stock may also be available after this date. RuneScape: The First 20 Years Deluxe Edition - pre-order from the Official Merch Store.

Both editions will be published and available for delivery from October 2021. Keep an eye out for more details - including more sample pages - over the coming months!