The Elder Scrolls: Arena
The Elder Scrolls - Arena is the first RPG fantasy game of the Elder Scrolls series. The game takes place on a planet called Nirn in the empire of Tamriel. The emperor of Tamriel, Uriel Septim, is planing to…
The Elder Scrolls: Arena is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Bethesda Softworks, released 25 March 1994 on DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It is free to play.
What The Elder Scrolls: Arena is
The Elder Scrolls: Arena is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1994. It is available on DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The imperial battlemage Jagar Tharn betrays the Emperor Uriel Septim by imprisoning him in an alternate dimension, then assuming the Emperor’s identity and place on the throne. A lone prisoner must travel to Tamriel’s most famous and dangerous sites to collect the shattered Staff of Chaos, save the Emperor and free the Empire.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Elder Scrolls series
The Elder Scrolls: Arena is the first of 62 entries we hold in the The Elder Scrolls series. The next entry was The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall in 1996. Its critic score of 88 is 11 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Game of the Year Edition at 90.
How it was received
The Elder Scrolls: Arena holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 89% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 1994 averaged 72, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Players rate it 79, 9 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel 386 25 MHz and 4 MB RAM. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
The Elder Scrolls: Arena launched on 25 March 1994, within three weeks of Super Metroid, Final Fantasy III and FINAL FANTASY VI. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Super Metroid, Final Fantasy III, FINAL FANTASY VI.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Elder Scrolls: Arena yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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