I was a part of a Game Maker project at one time as a composer for a medieval 2D platformer with RPG and open world elements inspired by the Elder Scrolls. It was called Eventide.
But that must’ve been 2010 or 2011 when we were developing that. Not sure what the dev is doing these days. If this post gets enough likes, I may reach out to him. Because I think we need an Elder Scrolls themed brawler RPG.
Not exactly what I'm looking for but interesting nonetheless! I looked it up, found lots of games going by the title Eventide but didn't see that one. 14 years ago, that's a while...sounds like they gave up on it maybe ?
Haha no doubt we gave up on it. I can't believe it's been 14 years. And it's been nearly 13 since the original release of Skyrim. I just re-read your post and saw you are looking for something more similar to Daggerfall. Well, not sure about clones, but The Quest by Redshift is pretty good. Not really modern since they made it for PDA. It's on Steam though. The gameplay differs a little bit as well. The combat system in Daggerfall was pretty advanced for its time. Honestly, it would be difficult to recreate within the same graphical scope even today. Elder Scrolls: Blades did a pretty good job I thought, but that was in a full 3D experience.
Ok so first person type dungeon crawlers from that era. You have Dungeon Master 1 & 2. Elder scrolls 1&2. Might and Magic series (10 games) Wizardry series. Amulets and Armor, Anvil of Dawn, Ultima Underworld 1&2, Hexx Hersey of the Wizard, Bards tale series. There is many more out there and plenty of obscure ones. Some of those games are free roam real time others are step based.
Most of that list is 80s/90s games. There are plenty of modern games in these styles also.
