The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall is an adventure game developed by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1996. It is available on DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on XnGine.

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall is the second of 62 entries we hold in the The Elder Scrolls series. It arrived 2 years after The Elder Scrolls: Arena. The next entry was An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire in 1997. Its critic score of 89 is 12 points above the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Game of the Year Edition at 90.

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The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall holds a critic score of 89 out of 100. That places it above 91% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored 19 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 84, across 99 votes.

The minimum specification calls for Intel i486 DX2 and 8 MB RAM. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall launched on 31 August 1996, within three weeks of Crash Bandicoot, Die Hard Trilogy, Formula 1 and Death Rally. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Crash Bandicoot, Die Hard Trilogy, Formula 1, Death Rally.

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