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.
Gotta be more specific. What about Skyrim are you seeking elsewhere?
The VR version with a ton of mods lol
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
Red Dead Redemption 2
Witcher 3
Kingdom Come Deliverance
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.
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
I still haven’t played through Skyrim.
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.
Oblivion.
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
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
Oh man, have you heard of Dragonborn Speaks Naturally? You can scream the shouts, for sure, but you actually say the lines of dialogue your character speaks to NPCs to select them! Paired with VR (and a hundred other mods) it’s one of the craziest game experiences I’ve ever played!
Oh wow
ive been dreaming of that being in a game
There was s Skyrim for Alexa add
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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
The first thing I thought when I played it was mechanically, this is exactly what I wanted Oblivion to be.
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.
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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 it’s an indie developer with 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.
Somewhat similar to Skyrim combat with the addition of parrying, dodging, and quick-swap hotkey consumables like potions, throwable potions (called splashes), throwing knives, food, and weapon oils (flame, frost, poison). I think magic combat is much better than Skyrim. Spells have light and heavy attack options, and you can wield any combination of spells and weapons (other than if you have a 2 handed weapon). You can have up to 4 sets of magic and/or weapons in your inventory slots to quickly swap between. Stealth combat is more difficult than Skyrim. Sneaking close to enemies requires more situational awareness, and the stealth skills aren’t as overpowered as Skyrim.
Shoots arrows.
Crouches.
Shoots arrows.
Crouches.
Shoots arrows.
Crouches.
In addition to what everyone else said, the summons are pretty cool, as well. You can summon multiples of a creature as well as direct them all to attack a specific enemy if there’s one fucker in a group that needs a jumping, and you can consume your summoned creatures to regain mana (or health, it’s been a while since I played last and I can’t remember exactly.)
There’s also a spell that causes targets to explode into cheese. And it works on your summons. So, infinite cheese is neat, I suppose
Ha cheese explosion sounds like the kind of lunacy I appreciate in a game. That could be all I need to know to give it a shot.
It’s very Souls-inspired, but (as someone who has played a good number of souls games) it’s done fairly poorly. It’s still far more interactive than TES games, but it’s clunky. It’s not bad, just bad compared to the Souls games, which are particularly good, but the rest of the game is quite different from a souls game. It’s basically if you take the bonfires and combat system from a souls game and stick it in a narrative focused RPG.
Hm as someone who holds Fromsoft mechanics as the standard for gaming it sounds like this might be a game I’ll either love or I’ll hate. Definitely love the idea of having the rest of the game different from Soulslikes. But if combat isn’t tight it’s likely I’ll bounce off of it or slog through just to see the end. I could hardly get myself to finish Witcher 3 even though I loved everything about it except the combat.
It’s worth a shot. You can get it pretty cheap sometimes. Honestly though, yeah, I think it’s probably better for people who haven’t played many souls-likes. For me, it feels clunky and super easy to cheese because I’m used to what it’s trying to do, and I know to use the mechanics to my advantage. I spent a good few hours with it, but eventually stopped playing. I didn’t dislike it, but I put it down one day and then never had the interest of coming back.
A bit absurd, in my limited experience. I did a bow with a one-handed rapier-like sword and a parrying dagger in my one playthrough so far. The bow was irritating to aim and arrow flight seems weirdly inconsistent on distance, but when it lands it’s about as overpowered as sneak archery in Skyrim.
The parrying is similarly strong — enemies could kill me if I wasn’t paying attention, but you can parry the majority of attacks, including things that seem impossible, like parrying a bear biting you, and the parrying dagger’s window is overly forgiving and overly spammable to the point that I had to stop myself from using it sometimes. I think parrying with other weapons is less silly, but I didn’t mess with them enough.
I also didn’t try the magic, so someone else can pick that part up, but it looked pretty extensive.
On hard difficulty, it feels like soulslike / tes mixup. The combat is dynamic and most enemies of your level would hit hard, but blocks, dodges and dashes are there.
But on the other hand, more things can be improved with gear and level to absurd proportions, like improve iframes on dodge or extend parry window to like more than half a sec.
Finished it recently and will certainly play it another round to catch things I missed. Nice game…
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?
Edit: TY for recco, bought :)
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.
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
The crab monacle mod 🦀🦀
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.
Sorry, nothing can match the glory of Posh Mudcrabs, especially when paired with samuel L jackson mudcrabs in SKYRIM.
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.
Edit: honorable mention for worst scripting language in a game: X4. Have you seen a for loop in a xml-like “markup” language? Would you like to?
