Brighter Shores is not a “traditional MMO”

Jagex founder and RuneScape creator Andrew Gower opens up about his next game, Brighter Shores, which loosely taps into Old School RuneScape with idle gameplay, calm grinds, and professions. That said, it’s not what you typically consider a “MMO.”

Speaking with GamesRadar, Gower explained it’s not like the rest, you don’t get to the endgame and that’s where the fun begins, instead, it’s all about the journey to the endgame and what endgame there is sounds intriguing as it sounds like it’s up to you how you play it, as it seems like you set your own goals.

The game itself, from what we have, absolutely bleeds RuneScape vibes and for the people who enjoyed that game, it will no doubt scratch an itch if they wanted to diversify their library. The game is largely a small team with no direct overhead publisher to answer to, so quite a bit of leeway can be given and a lot more focus on player experience can happen.

No release just yet, all we know is Brighter Shores will release sometime in Q3 2024.

“It is not a traditional MMO where you play, get to the endgame, and that’s where the game actually starts. It is very much, we keep releasing episodes, we keep introducing more and more different things to do. We haven’t really got a lot yet, but we will obviously want to put in the stuff that appeals to big epic content. The streamers like this big difficult content that they can do. We will put in stuff for that sort of audience, but it’s more about the journey.”