The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall Step into The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall on Android—an open-world action RPG with massive exploration, faction-driven court intrigue, procedurally generated dungeons, and multiple endings.

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall is an action-adventure RPG where you travel through an enormous world—more than 160,000 square kilometers of explorable land. The plot centers on court politics, intrigue, and supernatural secrets. You’ll choose which factions to ally with, then work through a mix of main quests and side quests. Combat is flexible: use different weapons and skills to fight enemies and monsters, and your choices can shape how the story ends. The game also adds roguelike-style unpredictability, with dungeon exploration delivering new terrain layouts and different foes as you go.

Features

Legendary Scope Across Tamriel

Released in 1996, Daggerfall became a milestone for open-world RPGs. Set in the provinces of High Rock and Hammerfell, it offers one of the largest game worlds ever built at the time, including a map spanning roughly 161,000 square kilometers. Much of the experience is driven by procedural generation, which helps create a near-endless supply of towns, dungeons, and wilderness areas—an exploration feel that still stands out years later.

Choices That Shape the Story

You play as a custom avatar sent by Emperor Uriel Septim VII. While the main campaign mixes court intrigue with supernatural mysteries, your approach is largely up to you. You can join different groups—such as guilds, knightly orders, and covenant-like covens. A reputation system influences NPC reactions and can affect outcomes, while moral and political options open different branches. Decisions across both main and side quests can lead to multiple endings, making it a game that encourages replaying to see what changes.

Deep Character Customization

Daggerfall’s character creation is exceptionally detailed. You can pick from many races and backgrounds, or create your own class by distributing skill points and setting attribute choices—such as magic abilities, starting spells, and even equipment restrictions. Progression is tied to using your skills, a hallmark of the Elder Scrolls series. You also get a robust spell creation and enchanting system, giving you strong control over how your character plays.

Built for Ongoing Play

The game’s lasting impact is visible in later Elder Scrolls entries. Community efforts have helped keep it alive—especially projects like Daggerfall Unity, which improves modern engine support and can provide higher-resolution visuals plus quality-of-life improvements.

Highlights

Many Quests to Explore

You’ll find a large variety of quests and missions, each presenting fresh problems to solve. As you take on new objectives, you’ll face different obstacles that test both your fighting and stealth skills. Dungeon-focused quests are especially intense, since much of the gameplay loop is built around these mission-based explorations.

Rebuild a City

As the emperor’s warriors, you’re left to manage everything when the emperor is gone. After exile, the city lies in ruins—and rebuilding it becomes your responsibility. You’ll have multiple tools and components to help restore the city and use it as a practical operational base (including as a dungeon hub).

Arena Showdowns

If you want something different from long, tough mission chains, the Arena mode offers quick one-on-one battles. You can spar with random opponents worldwide and focus purely on matchup and skill. You can also bring friends into Arena fights for direct battles with people you know.

Customize Your Characters

Characters have strong personality, and customization helps you shape how they look. You can adjust facial details, weapons, outfits, and many other appearance options so your characters can match the style you want.

Strategies

Watch the Extra Character Traits

While many RPG sequels mainly emphasize attributes and skills, Daggerfall also includes distinct character traits that you can configure for both roleplay flavor and mechanical effects. For example, you might set advantages to include expertise in a primary weapon type plus Increased Magery to raise your spell capacity. Disadvantages could include disease and poison, which can make it easier to obtain specific potions that counter those conditions.

Use the Mouse for Immersion (and Combat)

Other Elder Scrolls games often let you attack with a mouse click, but Daggerfall takes a more immersive approach. Before you dive in, consider changing your Controls. In the Under the Mouse setup, enable Mouse Look so the experience feels closer to modern Bethesda-style control schemes.

Also remember: in this game, sword swings are tied to how you move the mouse. The Bottom-Top method is usually the easiest—though it may be weaker depending on your execution.