As of August 2021, the RuneScape series holds 9 Guinness World Records with 8 applying to RuneScape and 1 applying to Old School RuneScape. These records in order from oldest to newest include:
•Most bots banned in a week with 7.7 million bots (as of October 30th, 2011)
•Most fish in a video game with over 8 billion fish (as of July 21st, 2012)
•First MMO videogame to release an "old school" version with Old School RuneScape releasing on February 15th, 2013 (as of February 22nd, 2013)
•Most video game-related forum posts per day with an average of 27,000 posts every day on the official RuneScape forum (as of June 19th, 2013)
•Most complex HTML 5 code in a video game made up of 152,472 lines of HTML 5 code and a further 421,196 lines of client-side scripting (as of June 19th, 2013)
•Greatest aggregate time playing an MMO or MMORPG video game (all players) with over 443 billion minutes (as of July 27th, 2013)
•Most users of an MMO video game with 254,994,744 player accounts (as of July 25th, 2017)
•Most prolifically updated MMORPG video game with 1,014 updates (as of July 25th, 2017)
•Most original pieces of music in a video game (including expansions) with 1,198 pieces of music (as of July 25th, 2017)