Top RSPS of Summer 2025: Best Servers by Category
Summer has brought a surge of activity to the RuneScape Private Server scene. Based on community reputation, feature depth, update cadence, and active player counts, RuneList.io has ranked the top three servers in seven distinct categories. Use the links below to explore each world for yourself.
🏷️ Economy-Based Servers
Alora — Veteran server averaging 500-600 players online, offering every OSRS boss, raid and skill in a balanc
Project Zanaris Paused Indefinitely — What It Means for Old School & the RSPS Scene
Jagex has announced that Project Zanaris, the long-teased “community servers” initiative for Old School RuneScape, is on hold with no set return date. The decision, published in an official news post on June 3 2025, cites mixed community sentiment and a renewed focus on core game infrastructure.
🗓️ Timeline of Key Events
September 2024 — Reveal at RuneFest. Jagex unveils Project Zanaris as
Jagex Targets Boom-Scape.com & AnarchyScape.net in Latest UDRP Wave
Two more RuneScape Private Server (RSPS) domains—Boom-Scape.com and AnarchyScape.net—have entered the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) system, marking the most recent step in Jagex Ltd.’s ongoing trademark-enforcement campaign against private servers that trade on the popular “-scape” branding.
🗓️ Timeline of Key Events
Early May 2025 — Filings logged. The Czech Arbitration Court (CAC)
Impact.GG Security Scan - Community Concerns Validated by Open-Source Analysis
For weeks, players have hesitated to launch Impact.GG, fearing that its client might pilfer browser cookies or worse. RuneList.io obtained a third-party Falcon Sandbox report on Impact.jar; the publicly available forensic data paints a worrying picture. This forensic scan can be read in full here.
🔍 Key Concerning Behaviours
OS Credential Dumping API. The client invokes NtQueryInformationToken (MITR
SpawnPK Wipes Clean — Two-Month Fresh-World Report
A catastrophic hard-drive failure on 9 April 2025 forced SpawnPK’s developers to erase every profile and reboot the game as a brand-new “Fresh World.” Two months later the verdict is in: daily votes have cooled from launch-week highs, yet active player numbers remain comfortably above pre-reset levels — proof that the gamble paid off.
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🗓️ Timeline of key events
9 Apr 2025 — Hardware
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