RuneScape lays out a “Road to Restoration” overhaul plan running through 2026

Jagex has outlined a long-term cleanup and overhaul effort for modern RuneScape called “Road to Restoration,” with plans stretching through 2026 and beyond. Instead of being a typical content roadmap, this one’s aimed at tackling older, messier parts of the game, from progression to combat to visuals.

According to the official post, the initiative is being introduced by Mod Breezy, with Principal Designer Mod Ryan framing the work around broad goals like making the game easier to understand without flattening depth, keeping a clear RuneScape identity, and focusing on playing because it’s fun rather than out of obligation.

As for what players should actually expect, the timeline shared so far is high-level. Early in the year, Jagex is aiming for a UI update alongside minor visual touch-ups. When spring rolls around, the studio says it wants to “modernise” combat styles and do early-game balancing. Later in the year, the plan shifts toward more visual updates, additional balancing, and broader overhauls to game systems.

Jagex also notes this will be broken out into a series of future blogs. The team says it knows the problems it wants to solve, but the exact solutions may change as they work through them, with details to be shared closer to release.

Broadly, the devs are calling out inconsistency and neglect across progression, combat systems, visual cohesion, and how engaging the game’s systems feel over time. If you’re looking for hard dates or a patch-by-patch breakdown, it’s not that kind of announcement yet. It’s more a statement of direction, plus a rough order of operations.