Thursday, 20th March, 2025 Cambridge, UK. Set sail across the oceans of Gielinor and discover an entirely new way to play Old School RuneScape with the alpha playtest for the game’s first ever new skill – Sailing – available to play from today for one week.

Available for Old School RuneScape members on PC to try until March 27th, players can jump into the Sailing playtest which is packed with exciting high seas adventure. Start off on a teeny tiny raft and improve your skill as a sailor until you eventually become an experienced captain, commanding your crew on a bigger vessels and traversing the most hazardous of waters. Dive with mermaids, chase ducks, and explore the far reaches of the ocean on a journey that’s only ever been seen from land.

Discover The Pandemonium, a new island that acts as a homely port between adventures, and learn how to sail and dock your boat in an introductory quest. Salvage treasures from lost shipwrecks, take on courier tasks, and combine deliveries with other maritime activities as you set sail across the seas, earning XP and charting your Sailing adventure. Avoid storms, customise your ship, and improve your skills to become an experienced captain, complete with a seahardy crew fit for facing the hazards of the open water.

The Sailing Alpha is available to RuneScape members on PC today via RuneLite and the official client To get started, any RuneScape member can simply select a Sailing Alpha Playtest world from the world selection menu.

Old School RuneScape is available now on PC, Steam, iOS, and Android, complete with cross-platform progression and play on PC and mobile.

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About Old School RuneScape
Old School RuneScape is the industry-defining collaboration between the community and developers. Embracing its nostalgic heritage, hundreds of thousands of active players control the direction of the game with an in-game polling system. Featuring adventures for solo play through to 100-player strong raids, Old School RuneScape caters for every brave adventurer. Old School RuneScape continues to innovate, introducing its first ever new skill in 2023 to commemorate its 10th anniversary, arriving later this year. Play now at http://oldschool.runescape.com

About Jagex
A leader in creating deep and engaging forever games that empower our communities across PC, mobile and consoles. Jagex’s flagship MMORPG, RuneScape, has welcomed over 300 million player accounts to its world and is a $1billion + lifetime revenue franchise. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond live operations; our titles are forever games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds. Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
 
In 2022, Jagex expanded with the acquisition Gamepires, bringing its expertise in building forever games to SCUM, a multi-million selling open-world survival title in Steam Early Access & other unannounced titles. Jagex employs more than 600 people globally, and is headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
 
More information can be found at www.jagex.com

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