Human Head Studios has announced that Rune Ragnarok has been renamed to Rune II and will be coming to the Epic Games Store this Summer. Inspired by the original Rune (2000), RUNE II is set in a dangerous Norse universe during Ragnarok, the end of days, where beasts and the last remaining humans alike struggle to survive.
According to the game’s description, players have been chosen by the gods to be Midgard’s savior – receive their blessings and powerful abilities as you endeavor to end Ragnarok. Players will race against time to prevent the trickster Loki from destroying Midgard as he keeps the world in a perpetual state of chaos.
Alone or with friends, players will battle legions of Loki’s minions in brutal melee combat, travel the world collecting rare resources, locate precious artifacts to weaken the Realm Gate and craft the mightiest weapons the Nine Realms have ever seen.
It’s unknown at this point whether the game will find its way on Steam after its release on the Epic Games Store.
Human Head Studios Co-founder and CEO Chris Rhinehart said:
“We’ve spent the last few years building a story-driven brutal Viking experience and evolving it with the help of our fan base. Players return to Midgard with a sense of familiarity, but with new mechanics such as god-given abilities, open world events, crafting, a full single/co-op campaign, along with UE4 enhanced visuals, making it a true sequel to the original.”
Enjoy!
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Oh another bait and switch tactic…well RIP Rune 2
Multiplayer survival minecraft style game with black vikings and epic games store exclusive
Sigh, gaming is dead….
More free games o/
Epic, make piracy great again.
Dayone for Exodus
Dayone for Close to the sun
bought genesis alpha one for 6 Euro
Preorder of Sinking city (at 38 euro)
Preorder of Detroit become human (at 29 euro)
And Sure dayone for Rune 2.
The real PC player is not a fanboy of a single platform (steam). Go home child.
>Go home child
>Preorder of…
gg
have you preorder borderlands 3? ah no, they removed becouse sales sucks on epic store.
I prefear SP games not coop. In any case, epic has paid the % of discount sale(10 euro) from their pocket, the profit margin was not affected from discount for 2k
This made me laugh out loud!
this is their job, even steam doesn’t care about us, they just want to make money, like epic, like EA, like Ubisoft, like everyone else.
So stop sailing with your fantasy of the bad guy and realize that gaming communism has no reason to exist.
You are the one bring Steam up, nobody else. Perhaps you have had a bad experience with Steam, perhaps you have too many VAC bans. Either way, it’s you that is coming across like an angry child.
I like steam, but i’m a PC player, and from PC player my home is PC itself, not a single platform. So, i Like steam, but also Uplay, gog, battlenet, bethesda.net and yes, even epic store.
Because i play on PC, and the PC is the PC, not steam. Steam was born only in 2004.
Well, you won’t have all these options on PC if Epic continues with it’s exclusives.
Assassin’s creed series, Farcry series, ubisoft games will continue to be available on uplay, same for EA games on Origin, Same for CDPR and gog, same with BLizzard and battlenet and bethesda on bethesda store. your comment is meaningless…
Sorry, I thought you were able to understand written English.
God piss off back to whatever trash not-America country you live in. You are an idiot. You have absolutely nothing to say to defend your asinine nonsense except “ima pc player soooooo”
Steam “was born” in 2003, and Valve revolutionized everything about PC gaming since then. If you had been gaming in the 80s and/or 90s, you would never dream of saying something so ridiculous.
The fact that you even pre-order games, much less from Epic, tells us all we need to know about how much garbage you are. On here spewing your bullsh*t trash about “Real pc gamers aren’t steam fanboys hurr durr oh sorry guys another Epic exclusive just went on the store I have to go pre-order this game I know nothing about and never played and have no gameplay footage of.”
FOH kid.
I’m 50, going on 51. I started my own software company at 21.
Nobody is saying there should only be one platform, well nobody except Epic as that is what they are doing with exclusivity.
Finish your education before making silly posts.
Epic store does not threaten the PC market to reduce to a single platform. Steam had this risk before Uplay, Origin, Battlenet Bethesda net, galaxy and epic store were born.
Today we have just another platform, no more, no less.
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Steam has never stopped games being sold on other store fronts. This is what exactly what Epic’s exclusives do. Again, finish your education before making silly posts.
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You know the thing is I looked on my private tracker last night to see if there were any of these Epic exclusives worth torrenting and the only thing I could come up with was Exodus.
Stop smoking TimWeed,dude…
Leave forever and just stfu, you’re too stupid to comprehend the multitude of reasons why people are against this and the fact that “muh launcher” or “muh valve” IS THE LEAST IMPORTANT among them.
If you’re going to be dumb enough to respond:
I have 1490 games on Steam, about 100 on GoG, 100+ on Origin, 75 or so on Uplay, 5ish on Battlenet, oh hey I even have about 400 on Xbox and 50 or so on PS and I still own all my retail game discs from the dark ages. It has nothing to do with launcher. I even “have” some “free” games on Epic.
if you have hundreds of games on 6 platforms and you complain about epics, you’re just a crying baby. 6 or 7 make no difference. And no, Epic is not the bad guy of gaming.
Actually, they are.
Epic has spent a year doing exactly the things that drive gamers away from console onto PC. Timed exclusives, exclusives in general, constant lying, etc.
Epic are *hit. Their business strategy is so disgusting, so condescending towards consumers, it will be years before I spend even a buck at their store even if they fix their behavior right now.
You’re supporting an anti consumer pos store by a company that abuses their workers because impulse control is too difficult of a concept to grasp and you call others childish??
Damn, I love irony.
I got all these games on EPIC: Metro [but it was from cd-key store preorder) and all of these during sale
Detroit
Control
Ashen
Operencia
Phoenix Point
Heavy Rain
Beyound Two Souls
As much as they are businesses, Steam and Epic do care about a lot of those things. Don’t tell me the makers of UE4 don’t care about devs lol. They spend several millions every single year literally just giving away money and enabling devs to do what they want.
Same way that Valve clearly care about VR, Linux etc.
FCK Epic
lol rumor has it they changed there games name because there is a movie called thor:ragnarok and the jews at disney threatened to sue.
Yet another dev to bend over for Epic. Lucikly the game looks and plays like garbage
What happened to le epic games accepting only quality games? Seems like they’re trying to buy out every cheap studio out there.
“Everyday better games release on Steam”
Such as…?
He’s too mentally retarded to figure that on his own.
99% are low effort shovelware titles.
Like John Wick? Fortnite? World War Z? Close To The Sun?
Now I know why Bethesda bashed out Human Head Studios over Prey 2. At this point, any studios and companies selling out to Epic Games are all untrustworthy, anti-consumer, back-stabbing scumbags. I’ll be just awaiting at the distance until the Epic Store collapses itself.
Because Bethesda tried to ruin them by sabotaging their game so they could buy them out like they did with idSoftware and Arkane Studios.
Bethesda is much worse than Human Head can possibly be, Epic Store or not.
Yea, no. This didn’t happen at all.
I have to give you credit though. I thought all these stupid “Hurr durr Human Head got shafted Prey 2 was gonna be amazing” kids had all pissed off by now. You’re sticking to your pointless, wrong crusade though. Good on you.
Prey 1 was absolute soulless garbage that did nothing new whatsoever in the genre and wasn’t even an entertaining game on its own. Anyone who played that game when it was new, and actually thinks HHS could have pulled off what can only be described as too ambitious in their idea for Prey 2, that person is a special kind of disabled.
Yet you’re going to cry when the resulting game from Arkane is a genre the industry has been desperately lacking for the past 20 years.
Prey was alright and I never stated that Prey 2 was going to be amazing, I never thought they could deliver the visuals shown in the trailers on 7th Gen consoles, much less the gameplay mechanics.
Bethesda shafted them and a handful of other studios including the Dark Corners of the Earth devs, this is a fact.
human head worked on biosht infinite too.
That never happened.
As someone who loved the original Rune, I wouldn’t call this “some random game”.
I would. I never heard of it, nor i care what happens to it.
I bet you don’t remember how fun the world was before the internet, either, huh?
Nope. I wasn’t born in that period, i’m afraid. Who says the world today isn’t fun? And what fuc*ing relevance has that with the current subject?
As much relevance as your opinion of a game you’ve never heard of.
Also, the world is still fun, but social media has made people generally more cold and conceited; not to mention suspicious of one another. The ‘TL;DR I want it now with minimal effort’ culture is garbage.
True, i have never heard of that game, let alone play it. But still, i can have a opinion. Your question, however, doesn’t have any relevance with the subject. We’re talking about a game, not about how “fun” life was before the internet was invented. Couldn’t care less about that. Internet or real life, all that matters is that you have fun. And i have most fun playing games.
I don’t think that social media is the cause for people being cold, or insecure. The only thing i can blame social media is that brainwashes people.Never was a fan social media. Well, except YouTube.
But yeah, overall i get what you’re saying. You have a point.
Indeed, you do have the right to an opinion, but let me just say that if you have the most fun playing games, (as I often do, too) and you can stomach the dated visuals, then you should check out some reviews on Rune. Aside from Steam, the game is also on GoG, which is great because you’ll actually own the game.
I also agree social media doesn’t do that to people all by itself, it’s simply an enabler for people with little to no self-control. Speaking of self-control, I should have prefaced my comment like HK-47, and typed
“Snarky Statement:” before typing anything else. Thanks for taking the time to use your words when replying back, as you also have a point.
You talking about Rune Classic? The one from 2000? If yes, then looks pretty interesting, not gonna lie. Kinda reminds me of Legacy Of Kain.
I don’t really care if the game is old and the graphics aren’t that great, i just hope the game works on Windows 8.1, there are a few old games that won’t even open on my pc.
I like GOG, i own a few games there, but only because they were free to keep. If a game is available on Steam, then i’ll buy it there. That’s where i have the majority of my games. Also, what do you mean by “you’ll actually own the game”? If i buy a game, then i own it. It doesn’t matter the store. I mean, that’s how it works everywhere, doesn’t it? 😀
Yes, that’s the game.
What I meant by “own the game” is just that. GoG will sell you a downloadable installer for the games you buy, so that you can put the game on any PC anywhere anytime with no internet. I have a GoG folder on an external HDD with around 80 games in it that I no longer need a store app to play; and that just feels awesome. 😀
first one was my first pc game.
explain me how a multiplayer minecraft mmo with black vikings has anything to do with the original rune?
So, the game is seemingly a pale imitation of God of War.
Which would be entirely fitting given that #EpicFail Store is a pale imitation of Steam.
Not really GoW type in anything but thematics. They seemed to be stuck between wanting an action slasher like the first game and wanting to cash in on survival games like ark. The game suffers from a lack of identity as much as lack of quality (so perfect fit for Epic there)
Stop and never talk again.
Every third person action combat game is not a “god of war clone.” If you’re still spouting that ridiculous garbage after nearly 20 years, you aren’t a gamer. God of War did not invent third person combat.
God of War definitely wasn’t the first third person viking/nordic action combat game either and if you’d actually played any games before in your life, you’d know God of War 7 was just an amalgamation of other games like Darksiders and other third person action games.
Getting your panties in a bunch again, I see. Nice straw man, too.
Somewhat more civil than your other recent response of “Literally kill yourself” so well done you. Ugh by name, ugh by nature.
“and if you’d actually played any games before in your life, you’d know God of War 7 was just an amalgamation of other games like Darksiders and other third person action games.”
The previous god of war games were like dmc. This new god of war game is very cinematic the camera is over the shoulder, combat is slow and it has loot.
Its not a god of war game.
The guy from one of their artworks looks like poor man’s Kratos from the new GoW.
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No Steam No Buy.
Scratch another one from my list. Unfortunate because I’ve been following this one since the beginning and was excited.
Another one bites the dust ! All thanks to the almighty
infamous “EPIC Games Store”.Emphasis on the word “Epic”.
So they ran beta tests on steam only to bend everyone over and head over to epic? wow.
I want Epic to get console exclusives, like Bloodborne.
Imagine the panic that will cause to console fanboys.
doesnt that happen already? quantic dream games comes to mind.
Oh I knew exactly what they meant last month when they said something something “Securing additional funding” and will be skipping Early Access. So no surprise at all.
Why don’t Steam just lower their greedy percentage and solve this issue?
Update: Most of you idiots can’t even construct a proper sentence to reply with.
Why would they ? they don’t lose anything also precentage is normal on Steam like anywhere else and lowering it won’t do anything, they get paid to release it exclusive on Epic and have nothing to do with any precentage at all.
Because they offer a host of actual services for that cut. It’s easy to offer more when your “store” doesn’t even have a shopping cart
If you still think that the Steam cut is still the problem then you are naive as f#ck.
You do understand that EVERY game store in existence except Discord, which no one cares about, and Epic, take a 30% cut, right?
why the devs dont release the game on all platform and discount on the store you want and charge full price for other stores it’s that F—-king simple and if the dev was in it for the split which they arent then they would have picked discord or GOG that give more too the devs than the EPIC store so why did they pick epic ? yeah we all know they got a few pretty pennies https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f941b6f90a9c59bf718aae9c00919e30db0c65ac4f2c1b71c5ad68ac1215cb86.jpg
The only issue is Steam prioritizing a lesser cut for games that sell more instead of the other way around.
30% has been the standard for years and 20% less than retail which is a whooping 50% plus licensing if you’re on a console.
Devs keep claiming EGS is the best thing since sliced bread and directly influence “journalists” because they get a better deal, they’re the greedy ones here.
Steam doesn’t need to compete with EGS because why compete with an anti consumer service that keeps embarassing itself?
Steam holding the bigger market share isn’t a good thing, but what Epic is doing and what they stand for is even worse.
disney hercules is on gog and steam, take that, epic store pesant!
Great, now as the DSOGaming community let’s buy two copies to show support.
hah, they disabled comments and the like/dislike ratio. These devs know exactly what they are doing, know exactly what’s going to happen, but they clearly want the bribe money regardless.
Screw em eternally for spiting their consumers like that.
a crap i was gonna whine about the black vikings and how this is a survivla game.
Interesting. They have disabled comments on their promo video and hidden the dislikes over the bait and switch Epic exclusivity.
Epic, make piracy great again.
Shame !!! I was looking forward to this game 🙁
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Looks good.
Really liked the 1st one, had hopes for the sequel but that trailer killed all my hopes, and Epic Store as a bonus…
Really liked the 1st one, had hopes for the sequel but that trailer killed all my hopes, and Epic Store as a bonus…
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I thought epic games said they wont add garbage games to their store ?
If I had known Human Head had anything to do with this game, I never would have been interested in the first place. I guess I forgot or didn’t look into it. HHS blows and now I don’t even care, I’ll five finger this one.
ha ha!
Rune 2: Runeharder.
Rune 2: The Runening
Rune 2: Runilations
Rune 2: Reruned
Rune 2: Runerun
So many options
Fck Epic, fck Tencent