Bethesda Giving Away Older Elder Scrolls Games for Free
Skyrim may be the most popular and successful game in The Elder Scrolls franchise, but the series’ roots stretch back to 1994. While the older Bethesda games may feel dated to modern audiences, they offer a glimpse into the evolution of The Elder Scrolls franchise.
Bethesda is now making things easier on video game archeologists by bringing four early Elder Scrolls games plus 2003’s multiplayer FPS Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory to Steam. These include some of Bethesda’s more obscure titles, and fans can even pick up three of these games for free.
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The classic Bethesda games now available on Steam are The Elder Scrolls: Arena, The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall, An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire, and The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard. The oldest Elder Scrolls games, Arena and Daggerfall, are free, as is Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. Meanwhile, Battlespire and Redguard are $5 each. However, it’s not clear whether the free games will stay that way forever, so players may want to act quickly just in case.
Released for MS-DOS in 1994, Arena is both the first Elder Scrolls game and the first original IP developed by Bethesda Softworks. A first-person game with early 3D graphics reminiscent of Doom, it features hundreds of dungeons scattered across an infinite procedurally generated world. Players must traverse Tamriel to free the Emperor and depose the evil sorcerer who took his throne. New players should be careful, though, as Arena is infamous for its brutal early-game experience, with many players struggling to even escape the first dungeon.
Meanwhile, 1996’s The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall introduced several concepts that would become enduring
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