Jagex brings RuneScape Dragonwilds to Asia-Pacific with full localisation

Jagex is betting that RuneScape: Dragonwilds can travel well beyond its Western base, with a full Asia-Pacific rollout later this year that will add Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean localisation. The move is being framed inside the studio as its most significant international expansion in 25 years, and it comes with a clear message: this is not just translation work, but a test of whether Dragonwilds can become a durable global growth pillar.

The timing is important because Dragonwilds already has traction to build on. The survival-crafting spinoff entered Steam Early Access on April 15, 2025, and Jagex says it has sold well over 1 million copies worldwide. It also pushed beyond its original audience before, expanding into Latin America on September 30, 2025 with Portuguese and Spanish localisation. In other words, the APAC move is the next step in a rollout pattern that is turning Dragonwilds into a live service with an increasingly international footprint.

That broader strategy was laid out when Jagex launched RS25 on January 15, 2026, calling it the largest investment in RuneScape’s history. The programme covers new game content, live events, a game-integrity roadmap, player-first design principles and expansion into new markets and formats. Jagex says the Asia-Pacific push belongs to that same plan, and the company is treating the region as the centre of gravity for the global player base. Jagex CEO Jon Bellamy called the move to China, Japan and Korea a “milestone moment” for both Jagex and the RuneScape franchise.

The scale of that ambition matters for players as much as it does for the business. Dragonwilds supports solo play or play with up to three allies, so stronger regional localisation can widen matchmaking pools, bring more players into the same social loop and justify a steadier support cadence. The game has already shown that Jagex is willing to keep shaping it in public: Fellhollow arrived on December 15, 2025 as the first major update, Dowdun Reach followed on March 31, 2026, and Jagex has pointed to smaller drops such as Beyond the Grave in February 2026.

Jagex says more is coming in 2026, including Umbral Sands in late Q2 and Scorned Wilderness in late Q3, alongside additional monthly content. For a franchise that has already welcomed over 300 million player accounts, Dragonwilds is becoming more than a spin-off. It is the proof case for whether RuneScape can keep growing by building new formats, new territories and a wider global roadmap around the worlds it already knows how to sustain.