Alternatives and competitors
Sites like RuneScape
The 20 closest MMORPG video games alternatives to RuneScape, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 14 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to RuneScape? The closest matches are Jagex, Blizzard North and Riot Games. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About RuneScape
RuneScape runescape.com
The World of RuneScape
One world, three amazing games. RuneScape is the original game, evolving for over 25 years. Old School RuneScape brings back the classic 2007 experience, improved and expanded. Dragonwilds is a co-op survival adventure set in the RuneScape universe.
Wikidata: 2001 massively multiplayer online role-playing game
Summary by Claude
Official site of Jagex's RuneScape games: the fantasy MMORPG RuneScape, Old School RuneScape (based on the 2007 version), and RuneScape: Dragonwilds, a co-op survival game set in the same world.
- Who it’s for
- Online gamers and MMORPG players
- Business model
- Subscriptions (membership), game sales and microtransactions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to RuneScape’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to RuneScape
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to RuneScape, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Jagex - The RuneScape Company
Jagex creates living, player-shaped worlds. Home of RuneScape, we build games that evolve for decades - grounded in integrity, creativity, and community.
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Blizzard Entertainment
Creators of the Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft, and Overwatch series, Blizzard Entertainment is an industry-leading developer responsible for the most epic entertainment experiences, ever.
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Riot Games. Developer of League of Legends, VALORANT, Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, and Wild Rift. Creators of Arcane. Home of LOL and VALORANT Esports. | Riot Games
Riot Games. Developer of League of Legends, VALORANT, Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, and Wild Rift. Creators of Arcane. Home of LOL and VALORANT Esports.
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D&D Beyond | Play Your Way With the Official D&D Toolset | Dungeons & Dragons
Play Dungeons & Dragons with digital tools on D&D Beyond: character builder, encounter and campaign management, and Maps VTT for running adventures online or in person.
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Eldorado - Largest & Safest Game Items Marketplace
Buy game items, accounts, currency, top ups, boosting & gift cards safely. Shop millions of offers for hundreds of games. Legit sellers, always in stock.
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Roblox: Play Free Online Games - Sign Up to Play!
Roblox is the ultimate virtual universe that lets you create, share experiences with friends, and be anything you can imagine. Join millions of people and discover an infinite variety of immersive experiences created by a global community!
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Microsoft Casual Games
video game developer
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World of Warcraft News and Guides
The largest World of Warcraft (WoW) information site, featuring guides, news, and information on classes, gearing, professions, raids, transmog, and more.
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League of Legends Homepage
League of Legends is a team-based game with over 140 champions to make epic plays with. Play now for free.
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Modrinth
Download Minecraft mods, plugins, datapacks, shaders, resourcepacks, and modpacks on Modrinth. Discover and publish projects on Modrinth with a modern, easy to use interface and API.
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Java | Oracle
Get started with Java today
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Scopely Explore
We build real world, AR games and apps that encourage people to explore the world, including top hits like Pokémon GO. Discover Scopely Explore today!
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LoL Stats Tracker, Rankings & Match History | OP.GG
LoL stats, match history, live games, and rankings for every League of Legends player. Search Summoner's Rift, ARAM, Arena, and every game mode on OP.GG.
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Australian-Curaçaoan online casino
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Welcome to GOG.com | best PC games DRM-free
Download the best classic and new games on Windows, Mac & Linux. A vast selection of titles, DRM-free, with free goodies and 30-day money-back guarantee.
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Liquipedia
esports encyclopedia
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None
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CardGames.io - Play all your favorite classic card games.
Play classic card games like Hearts, Spades, Solitaire, Free Cell and Euchre for free. No sign-up or download necessary!
- Google Search Console
- Amazon Route 53
- Amazon Web Services
- Amazon CloudFront
- Google Ad Manager
- Google Workspace
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NC - Welcome to a New world Connected Through Joy
From MMORPGs like Lineage, AION, Blade & Soul, and THRONE AND LIBERTY to casual, shooting, and action titles, NC connects the world through play.
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Wargaming.net games — the full list of games available for players on the official website
A catalogue of games produced by an award-winning online game developer and publisher. Legendary and new games from Wargaming for PC, iOS, Android, Xbox and Playstation.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to runescape.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones RuneScape uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What RuneScape is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- Contentful page source: images.ctfassets.net
- Website builders
- Framer meta generator: Framer 2f857c8
- Fonts
- Adobe Fonts asset https://use.typekit.net/kid5bou.css
- Google Fonts page source: fonts.gstatic.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Taboola page source: cdn.taboola.com
- Monitoring
- Sentry page source: .ingest.sentry.io
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5631bb9199283bd-HAM
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms38876710
- Mimecast MX eu-smtp-inbound-2.mimecast.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1027.awsdns-00.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- DocuSign TXT docusign=ca9e8d34-34f9-4669-bc75-c25a90e9bc19
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=pUwl5KYHKSZ6tbbgsR2wYNv1kbVmsYral3iFmijHTWM
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=ctvfg2pq2k2u1h1nded4yoenikk39v
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what RuneScape adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Microsoft 365 10/20
- Google Workspace · not on runescape.com 9/20
- Atlassian · not on runescape.com 8/20
- Google Tag Manager 7/20
- Meta Business Suite 7/20
- Apple Business · not on runescape.com 6/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- DocuSign 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 6/20
- Zendesk · not on runescape.com 6/20
- Miro · not on runescape.com 5/20
- OpenAI · not on runescape.com 5/20
- Zoom · not on runescape.com 5/20
- nginx · not on runescape.com 5/20
- jQuery · not on runescape.com 5/20