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Retro Elder Scrolls clones made in modern day? Does that exist ?

A topic by Marianne Letourneau created 93 days ago Views: 351 Replies: 14
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Hey hey,

I'm looking for games that are ''clones'' or heavily inspired of the Elder Scrolls franchise, but made in a retro style (eg. psx style, or pixel art.)

Basically, something like The Elder Scrolls Arena or Daggerfall - a first person dungeon crawler in a medieval fantasy open world - but with more modern controls.

Something that's been made more recently too.

Does that exist ?

The only thing I could find was a game called World of Anterra, but it's top down, so not really it.

 

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Dude i will make it as long as you provide some requests for it

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I was a part of a Game Maker project at one time as a composer for a  medieval 2D platformer with RPG and open world elements inspired by the Elder Scrolls. It was called Eventide.


But that must’ve been 2010 or 2011 when we were developing that. Not sure what the dev is doing these days. If this post gets enough likes, I may reach out to him. Because I think we need an Elder Scrolls themed brawler RPG.

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Not exactly what I'm looking for but interesting nonetheless! I looked it up, found lots of games going by the title Eventide but didn't see that one. 14 years ago, that's a while...sounds like they gave up on it maybe ?

Haha no doubt we gave up on it. I can't believe it's been 14 years. And it's been nearly 13 since the original release of Skyrim. I just re-read your post and saw you are looking for something more similar to Daggerfall. Well, not sure about clones, but The Quest by Redshift is pretty good. Not really modern since they made it for PDA. It's on Steam though. The gameplay differs a little bit as well. The combat system in Daggerfall was pretty advanced for its time. Honestly, it would be difficult to recreate within the same graphical scope even today. Elder Scrolls: Blades did a pretty good job I thought, but that was in a full 3D experience.

The Quest - Oh, that one looks interesting, will surely check it out, thanks for the suggestion!

G'day I've attempted this a few times. Especially with my games 'Bane of Oakenshade'. I've had a few misses along the way on some retro unity projects that have that open world style. Check out 'Citadel Unchained' . It's a massive open world but I had to sacrifice some features due to some coding bugs but you get the idea. I'll add my games also run on older hardware aswell. Oakenshade can run on win98 I think and Citadel Unchained can run on win 2000/XP.


I've helped integrate them into modern systems aswell but basically mainly inspired by Daggerfall/Kings Field and Morrowind. As well as countess other Late 90s early 00s RPGs


There's a huge collection of Kings field fan games to download free online if you like that first person open world style.

Also check my 3rd and 1st person game collections on my page. There's heaps of games from a huge variety of Devs. I think I've got almost 100 games featured in the 1st person collection.

I do always recommend an Awesome yet incomplete game called 'Moratheia'. If you can track down a copy it's well worth your time. It's a damn shame the developer abandoned it and never finished.

Oh, cool, that's a lot of stuff to check out! Will surely try out a few of those, thanks!

I know heaps more similar games to Daggerfall aswell for DOS if you are interested 

I'm interested!

Ok so first person type dungeon crawlers from that era. You have Dungeon Master 1 & 2. Elder scrolls 1&2. Might and Magic series (10 games) Wizardry series. Amulets and Armor, Anvil of Dawn, Ultima Underworld 1&2, Hexx Hersey of the Wizard, Bards tale series. There is many more out there and plenty of obscure ones. Some of those games are free roam real time others are step based.

Most of that list is 80s/90s games. There are plenty of modern games in these styles also.

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Jagex also had a game for iPhone some time ago that is no longer on the AppStore. Undercroft. It wasn’t developed by Jagex, but they owned the rights to it. After it was taken down, Jagex allowed the original developers to release a Windows version of the game.

https://www.rakeingrass.com/games/undercroft/

That looks pretty nice actually, the mobile controls are a huge turn off tho...but good to know it exists, thanks!

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I've enjoyed this discussion btw. I love the old DOS dungeon crawlers, and Daggerfall was a massive game. I need to go back an play it (Feeling Nostalgic).  And I might download the windows version of Undercroft as well. 

I actually checked out some of my DOS collection last night. Daggerfall is brutal. Anvil of Dawn and Hexx Heresy of the Wizard are other games I wanna dive into. The old school jank and learning curve can be difficult though.