The free-to-play DarkScape doesn't alter RuneScape, but instead exists alongside it, set in the aloft all-embracing apple as RuneScape, but with a "kill or be killed" twist. Anybody starts from blemish in RuneScape gold, but bodies with absolute RuneScape accounts will acquire a 1.5X XP accession and an added annual kept on death.

"Featuring a hasty and betraying apple disconnected into low, mid, and high-risk regions, ceremony with their own economy, players will acquire to adjudge how abysmal they biking into zones of best threat, breadth admired assets and high-level agreeable can be claimed," Jagex said in its announcement.

"Players will acquire to watch their backs yet assignment calm to assure barter routes, authority adeptness plots, and anatomy into brigand groups," it added. "Even Gielinor's cities, highly-protected citadels of business in DarkScape, aren't safe from PvP skirmishes. However, the added abroad from these attenuate 'safe areas', the added acceptable players will acquire to activity for their loot--and their lives."

DarkScape arch ambassador Conor Crowley said Jagex came up with the abstraction for DarkScape "a brace of years ago buy OSRS gold." The abstraction was put on the backburner as Jagex focused on RuneScape and added projects, but "it's backward with us" all along, he explained.