The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall is a fantasy open-world action role-playing video game developed and published by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1996 for MS-DOS and now available for free.

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall is a fantasy open-world action role-playing video game developed and published by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1996 for MS-DOS and now available for free.

It is a sequel to The Elder Scrolls: Arena and the second installment in The Elder Scrolls series.

In Daggerfall, as in all The Elder Scrolls games, players are not required to follow questlines or fill specific character types. Bethesda Softworks claims that the scale of the game is the size of Great Britain: around 229,848 square kilometers (88,745 square miles), though the actual size of the map is 161,600 km (62,394 mi). The game world features over 15,000 towns, cities, villages, and dungeons for the player's character to explore. According to Todd Howard, game director, and executive producer for Bethesda, the game's sequel, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, is 0.01% the size of Daggerfall, but some aspects of Daggerfall's terrain were randomly generated, like the wilderness and some building interiors. The explorable part of Morrowind, Vvardenfell, is 24 km (9.3 mi). There are 750,000+ non-player characters (NPCs) for the player to interact with.

Daggerfall features a spell-creation system where, through the Mages Guild, players can create custom spells with several different effects. The game will then automatically generate the Magicka cost of the spell based on the power of the effects chosen. Other features include an equipment enchantment system (similar in concept to the spell creation system); the ability to buy houses and ships; a variety of clothing and equipment; dynamic political relationships between kingdoms; the ability to become a vampire, werewolf, or wereboar; and the combat system, which uses mouse movement to determine the direction and effect of weapon swings in melee combat.

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