Monthly average concurrent players for RuneScape and Old School RuneScape from the game's launch in January 2001 to October 2026, with every month labelled. Scroll the chart sideways. Every update sits in a bubble linked to its data point: OSRS above the plot, the main game and Jagex-wide items below.
Tip: drag the chart, hold Shift and use the mouse wheel, or turn on Follow cursor. Pre-2013 values come from archived snapshots of Jagex's own player counter, which skew toward peak hours; months with no archived snapshot are bridged with a dotted segment (most of 2001–2003, plus Nov 2005 and Aug 2007).
Player counts: aggrgtr.com (continuous tracker from Feb 2013; Wayback Machine reconstruction before that). Events: Jagex news posts, OSRS Wiki, GamerBlurb, PC Gamer, Checkpoint Gaming, and the leaked 2011 Jagex botting memo.