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The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall

Bethesda Softworks · 2022-04-26

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ActionRPG

Franchise: The Elder Scrolls · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Sep 10, 2013 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), 1996 (DOS)

THE GREAT MACHINE AWAKENS

86%
positive of 3.6k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
89/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
79/100
IGDB user rating (100 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
Free
steam price (US)
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall is a 1996 action role-playing game published by Bethesda Softworks. The second installment in the Elder Scrolls series, it was released on September 20, 1996 for MS-DOS, following the success of 1994's The Elder Scrolls: Arena. The story follows the player, sent by the Emperor, to free the ghost of King Lysandus from his earthly shackles and discover what happened to a letter sent from the Emperor to the former queen of Daggerfall.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 366 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~46/week).
  • · Review velocity down 23% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 19,734 Action games in the census by review count.

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

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Details

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