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I still can’t get over The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? I want to try something newer, with better technology, but I hope they can be as rich and interesting as Skyrim.
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is on sale on Steam right now. I’ve only played through the prologue, but it seems pretty good so far.
I was about to recommend this too. Probably the closest thing to Elder Scrolls that isn’t actually Elder Scrolls or a mod. Excellent game, and quite an impressive achievement considering they had nowhere near the budget of a Bethesda game.
I am curious about this one - what’s combat like? I’m pretty picky when it comes to mechanics.
I also came to recommend this, I have played a lot of the game. Same exploration and basic leveling mechanics, similar balance of silly humor and serious story, really fun underrated game
Grab the DLC too or no?
Yes. Is good stuff.
Looks interesting, anyone knows if it can run on Linux?
Yes, I beat it and only played in Linux.
Protondb.com is your friend, but also essentially everything can that isn’t multiplayer, and most of that can as long as it isn’t from EA or China.
Ok you want something as rich and interesting as skyrim, so I’m assuming open world games are your jam.
There are three games you should play.
Red Dead Redemption 2 - it’s a Western, the world is very believable, and it makes you feel like you’re really part of it. You can follow the main story line, or you could spend your days hunting and fishing. You could travel from town to town playing every poker game you can find. You can conduct train robberies, breed horses, really, there’s just a whole lot to do.
Cyberpunk 2077 - this is RDR2 but in a scifi dystopian future where the corpos own everything, sex is for sale on every billboard and every ad break, and the only justice is what you can achieve on your own. You’ve got a ticking time bomb in your brain and no time to fuck around. In this world where you can’t trust anyone, somehow what really matters are the friends you make along the way. (seriously)
The Witcher 3 - from the same studio that made cyberpunk, the Witcher 3 is truly a masterpiece of storytelling. The one caveat I have for this game is that it starts hard, almost “souls-like”. But get past that first rough hour and there is an extremely rich world with a seemingly unending collection of stories to become a part of. This may be the most skyrim-like of the games listed here, but you’re in for a treat, because this is a much better game than Skyrim.
All three of these games are gonna make you feel real feelings, they’re all actually better at telling stories than Skyrim is. The Witcher 3 in particular loves to live in the grey zone, it’ll make you make ethical choices that matter, and you probably won’t like any of the possible outcomes. But this is a good thing!
I’d throw Kingdom Come in there, too
Looking at the basic gameplay loop and quest design, Kingdom Come is probably the closest to Skyrim. Just with the realism dialed up to 11.
In retrospect I probably should have mentioned the horizons games as well, but I just finished with cyberpunk, so that’s been on my mind.
Have you tried Skyrim: Anniversary Edition, Skyrim: Special Edition or Skyrim: Legendary edition? /j
skyrim with kinect was genuinely the best version
Love the idea that you can actually scream the shouts :D
There are a lot of good recommendations in here, but if you like Skyrim that much have you considered playing a total conversion of it? Enderal: The Shards of Order Is so different that is basically a completely new game, but within the concept of Skyrim, it’s engine, and a lot of its assets. Think the change from ocarina of time to majora’s mask, but even more extreme
The VR version with a ton of mods lol
Witcher 3.
The Witcher 3 includes all the DLC now, and it’s like $10 on Xbox. Or at least that’s what I paid last week. Just started for the first time.
On PC it’s also DRM-free, even the Steam version, not just the GOG version. So if one of your friends has it you can just copy it from them
Telling people what in particular you like about Skyrim is going to get you much better feedback as there are many, many games that are similar in some ways but not others.
I’m just looking for a game where I can hoard consumables in perpetuity. Any suggestions?
You never know when you might need them.
Have you considered going meta and hoarding games you might play about hoarding consumables in perpetuity?
check out factorio… you can hoard as much as you want :D
Minecraft is actually really good for this, you can pretty much hoard everything the world has in it. I always end up just doing nothing but building hoards full of food and means to produce it everywhere like some small mammal preparing for a long winter lmao. I guess you should rather try the other games that mimic it though since microslop, but I haven’t tried those
I like the scripting language? It’s stupid easy to edit the bytecode and change something if you want to without needing a full dev environment.
The crab monacle mod 🦀🦀
Sorry, nothing can match the glory of Post Mudcrabs, especially when paired with samuel L jackson mudcrabs in SKYRIM.
Don’t tell my kid, who won’t stop playing Crab Rave over and over in Beat Saber (and wouldn’t stop watching the music video when we didn’t have a good VR setup), about this.
Red Dead Redemption 2
I was so disappointed with a Witcher game. I forget which one it was, but good god, what a bore the intro is.
The first two were super janky. 3 is one of the best video games ever made.
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. Not the same kind of “magic” but if you want immersion and a super rewarding story I highly recommend it
And make it gay, make it soo so gay.
And when we mean gay, like make it REALLY wet and sloppy kind of gay, yk? The kinda gay that it even embarrasses the queerest of queens.
I still haven’t played through Skyrim.
Lucky. I wish I could experience it for the first time again.
It’s worth playing through to the end.
For me it was Witcher 3 and the dlc. Love that game so much…
And a new DLC is coming soon!
This is the right answer
Oblivion.
I was gonna say Morrowind lol
The remaster is so so good. It still blows my mind.
This might just be too obvious, but nobody’s mentioned it… Have you played the other Elder Scrolls, like the Oblivion remaster?
The Oblivion remaster is great. If you can get past the terrible performance, it’s very immersive and feels like Skyrim with a smaller world and more fun quests. The DLC included was also great.
It really was! It was available for free on Gamepass, so even though I’d already done SO many playthroughs, I thought I’d check it out. I didn’t put it down until I had done almost literally everything.
Heavily depends on what makes Skyrim special for you.
The most obvious similar games are other Bethesda titles, especially Oblivion and Morrowind. Install some QoL and graphical mods, and you should now have 3 Skyrims.
Man I haven’t played Skyrim since the Xbox 360 days on my CRT. Other Bethesda games I played recently were Fallout 4 and Starfield.
FO4 was disappointing and Starfield was fine but I never finished it
Bethesda just lost their spark. It’s all live-service pseudo shooters now in an outdated engine that bothered no one when they made good RPGs, but is woefully behind for shooter action as primary gameplay loop.
I can give you older and with worse tech - Morrowind is better than Skyrim
morrowind storyline and world building is peak.
Add in OpenMW and Tamriel Rebuilt.
Tbh, I really need to get into Morrowind myself. I’m excited for Skywind and kinda waiting for that to come out instead, since I have a lot of projects keeping me from gaming this year
This is how you honor the sixth house and the tribe unmourned.
So is Oblivion, though it belongs in the middle spot it happens to occupy numerically as well.
Eh, I tried Oblivion, the Cyrodiil seemed to be quite small.
I want to try something newer, with better technology
openmw is newer and since it’s morrowinds character customization, it’s better tech. No more perks!
If you want the same world building and hadn’t given it a try, Elder Scrolls Online is still great, can be acquired for cheap (even the base game has a lot of content), and be played almost fully solo!
If you didn’t mind the “floatiness” of Skyrim Combat, ESO is great, has a lot of world building and exploration, can be quite immersive at times, and basically has the look of a modded Oblivion.
I spent a good 400h on it, mostly on lore discovery, main and side quests, and farming not for equipment but to get furniture for my house! (and if I recall I still didn’t reach the max level, not a pro-player).
I never played it as an MMORPG, but more as a coop RPG while still playing solo most of the time. So I can’t judge on the quality of the MMO aspects (though the cyrodil constant battle system is quite fun and intense).
Yeah, +1
I think most write this off as a “MMO,” but it doesn’t feel like a WoW clone. Like (unfortunately) SWTOR did to me.
Rdr2 my friend, rdr2
Almost, imo. Rdr2 is outlaw simulator, Skyrim has the option to be any alignment. Or you can start a family and have kids and build a life.
Might sound weird but maybe STALKER. They’re both older, very charming but very janky open world RPGs, and both have immense modding scenes that have created an experience greater than the sum of its parts.
STALKER 2 is actually quite enjoyable and has great world building, pretty solid story, and a lot of the loveable jank.
It is the first game I ever bought and did not finish. There is no story to speak of, only fetch quests. No world building (a-life is absent). All that I could cope with, but the gameplay is also inferior IMHO, it feel less tactical because the AI is so bad compared to the first stalkers.
Probably a better overall recommendation based on OPs desire for something newer. I can’t say I’ve played it though so can’t personally recommend.
Also, Anomaly definitely runs better on average hardware, and modded Anomaly can look absolutely outstanding.
Tried the first three games in the series, but man, the enemy AI is so dog shit and the gun play is horrid. Does any mod actually fix this?
GAMMA, HACR, or Anomaly Custom are examples of a few modpacks you should look into. All of them have totally overhauled gunplay and AI afaik
Deoends if you want to stay in the fantasy setting. Cyberpunk will give you that same type of feeling but just in the sci-fi genre.
Kingdom Come Deliverance 1 was great.
But it’s a Medieval RPG, not fantasy. So you won’t find elves or orcs or magic.
And the sequel is of equal quality, the combat was simplified a bit but I like both approaches.
The sheer amount of high quality narrative across both games is pretty unique. There’s very little that feels like filler busy work, which was what most of skyrim felt like for me. Especially after oblivion.
I hear great things about it, I didn’t mention KCD 2 because I didn’t play it.
All those things you added can be added to Skyrim as well via mods
Yeah that’s what I said, I suggested KCD because I was playing a modded Skyrim.
If OP wants the feel of vanilla Skyrim, then KCD is not the right choice.
Totally biased, since I lived in half of my life in Skalitz. Have you considered KDC?
As a huge Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim fan, I’ve found the same. KDC in many ways hit many of the same vibes but with superior characters, story, and dialogue. The missing magic is a vibe I still return to mostly Oblivion for these days.
And it’s a technical marvel. It’s like CryEngine was built for KCDII.
Also, it is so medieval it hurts.
RDR2 and Cyberpunk. Although they are more linear roleplaying games than Skyrim’s experimentation.
You need a lower dopamine threshold to make the most of those games, but they’re a treat when you learn how to do that.
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
An indie game which has a lot of Skyrim vibes.
The new Gothic remake.
Time to take off those training wheels and experience a real RPG.
Tainted grail: fall of Avalon.
Its janky, but pretty cool in its own way.
Kcd2.
Depends on what you actually want. If it’s the first-person RPG experience, there’s a handful such as Tainted Grail and Cyberpunk 2077. If it’s using a slightly different system, either the Witcher or BG3 or Expedition 33.
But modding… I cannot find any other RPG that gets better if it is modded, as Skyrim – and Morrowind and Oblivion – pretty much designed to be modded.
grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Gotta be more specific. What about Skyrim are you seeking elsewhere?