People searching for games like RuneScape are often not looking for another game that looks like RuneScape. They are looking for the freedom created by its skill system.
RuneScape lets one character move between combat, gathering, production, farming, trading and long-term collection goals without committing to a traditional permanent class.
This is why Black Desert can appeal to RuneScape players despite playing very differently. Its life skills, workers, nodes, farming, fishing and processing give non-combat progression unusual depth. Albion overlaps through gathering, crafting, classless equipment and economy, but adds much more PvP risk. Wurm goes further toward construction and world manipulation.
No one of those games is RuneScape 2. The useful comparison is mechanical: which parts of RuneScape do you actually enjoy?
That is the approach behind our Games Like pages. Recommendations are based on shared systems rather than screenshots, setting or a broad RPG tag.