Rune is one of the best hack and slash games I've ever played. The gameplay remains solid even compared to newer games of the same genre. There are 15 weapons to use. There's puzzles to solve. Then there's food to eat and ale to guzzle when you're wonded from the slaughtering. The multiplayer still works, though there are a few tweaks and quirks to fiddle with depending on whether or not you use a router or have custom firewall settings in order to play with others on Steam version servers. There are a number of older version servers running and active that Steam users can join and play on.
I recommend this game to anyone that likes full 360 degree splatterhouse games.

Don't let the ageing graphics deceive you. This game is the most fun my friends and I have had in an online game in quite some time. The premise is simple;

1) Find a big axe
2) Remove opponents limbs
3) Throw limbs in to the sea

If you can cope with the 12-year-old visuals then get it bought!

You eat lizards.

Fun, tight controlls, perfectly formatted for a modern WASD/E-to-activate/Space-to-jump mentality. Widescreen 1080p, and runs fine as-is on Windows 8.1.

Here is my review of "Rune" , Rune is a great third person action game, classic game from the 90's .. Ragnar is on a quest for vengeance and will take you to the cold heights of the Frost Giants to the hot underbelly of the earth, the home of the Goblins. you will pass through the crooked passages of the Dwarves, with thier strange machines, and into the mountain fortress of Thorstadt. Your battle will rage in more than thirty levels of trail and adverity.

Your bones are real. Each swing of the axe affects your body whole. if your arm is cut, it is your arm that will bleed. Your movements are precise and fluid, You are a warrior. But your also a mortal

The Nordic creatures of this land are crawling from the shadow of evil and coming for you. If you are to evade their jaws, you must be more cunning than them. it is melee combat they prefer, close enough to smell the fear you must control. Even if you see your life spilling from your body, your hand will remain steady on your blade.

You will test your mettle in Deathmatch. You will raise your axe against legions of warriors. You will do it alone or with others in your team Deathmatch. You will fight until your red with your own blood, there will be a silent terror that will find you and take you down.

MELEE-BASED COMBAT or Viking Folklore YOU WILL WANT TO KEEP YOUR EYES ON THIS ONE!