Rune Classic

Experience an exciting single player storyline where you thwart Loki and his minions from bringing Ragnarok to Midgard.

Rune Classic is a action, adventure and third person game developed and published by Human Head Studios.
Released on June 13th 2012 is available only on Windows in 6 languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain and Russian.

It has received 871 reviews of which 780 were positive and 91 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Rune Classic into these genres:

Action Adventure Third Person Classic Hack and Slash Vikings Multiplayer Gore Singleplayer Mythology Fantasy RPG Nostalgia

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows XP
Processor: 1 GHz
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 7.0 capable card
DirectX®: 7.0
Hard Drive: 1 GB HD space

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

Not sure who's reading this in 2024, but here goes. I'd recommend this title only if you're old enough to remember its launch; nostalgia carried me through much of this game I never got around to completing back in the early 00s. It's a decent enough title, but certainly a product of its time and relatively shallow in its mechanics and storyline. More of a 'get this off my backlog' run at about 9 hours on standard difficulty. The combat is pretty straight forward and click mashing, though there are some times that 'precision' seems to be required with no way to produce it. One key example is early in the game a skeletal enemy needs its head removed to expedite its death. Sometimes comes in a swing, sometimes a dozen. Blocking also seems quaint and offered little protection throughout my run. Just mash things to death and back up where possible. The game can spike your death suddenly at times but does do a decent job in most parts to get your health back up to full afterwards. Game threw a fit trying to run in UW resolutions so stick to 1080p; otherwise it ran fine on a brand new, 9800X3D, Win 11, late 2024 build. TROUBLESHOOTING NOTE: Within the last 10-15 minutes of the game, there's a cutscene that'll hard crash the game, hard enough to make getting Task Manager running to kill it nearly impossible. You'll know it when you find it. Save often, and when you reach this headache, upon reloading the game you just crashed out of and before hitting that spot (comes right after jumping from 2 vines with your 'boosted' character), head to the options for the audio settings and take the sound volume slider down to 0. Once past that cutscene you can reenable sound. Found this solution buried in a 10 year old Steam forum thread, but it worked. Probably safe to skip if you haven't played it already, and for completionists, there's no 100% this without help cheesing the multiplayer achievements in an ancient game, but I have spent time on worse titles.

Nov. 2024

I've loved this game ever since I was a kid. It's always been one of my favorite hack and slash dungeon crawlers. Every time I play it, it takes me back to that special place in my childhood.

May 2024

This is the best game ever made, ever. Vikings, Norse Mythology and Ragnar weaving the DWS cannot be outdone. Simply epic swordplay and melee combat mechanics. Yes I am a millenial who played this as a kid 25 years ago, experiencing nostalgia, stfu.

April 2024

Another game from the past that makes its way onto Steam. I played this originally on the original PC Disc version. Then the PS2 port later. It is a bit dated and clunky with the controls. Story is great for a Viking theme. Gameplay is gory for its time. Gibs and chunks were the gorefest of the time. OST is symbolic to the theme and helps drive the story and gameplay. Its not for everyone and I imagine there will be many complaints over the clunkiness. As always check the pcgamingwiki for modern PC fixes to assist in smoothing it out and Nexusmods Rune Classic Remastered Mod https://www.nexusmods.com/runeclassic/mods/1 which fixes a ton

Feb. 2024

I freaking loved this game when it came out in 2001. After some many years i got to replay it, and i still remember of how it was! Soon all of this will be erased from our memories, because WW3 is coming! Enjoy this game while you can, soon you will wake up in the future or on a different planet...

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Developer

Human Head Studios

Publisher

Human Head Studios

Release 13 Jun 2012

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