➤ Enderal Forgotten Stories, going beyond Skyrim 🎮

Enderal Forgotten Stories it is an impressive project from every point of view. This is a revised, expanded and corrected version of the Enderal total conversion for The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, dating back to 2016, which recently landed on Steam, gathering enthusiastic comments and obtaining a great success with the public.

For the record we are not talking about the classic mod that adds a few hours of gameplay to the base title, but about a completely new and autonomous game, set in a world different from that of Tamriel, which takes more than seventy hours to complete and to be stripped to the end more than a hundred. SureAI, the team that took care of making it, has essentially taken the title of Bethesda and modified it in everything, including graphics, obtaining something unique that, if it were not for the need to have it in the Steam account for the installation, he would only vaguely remember Skyrim, so much is it conceptually different. Let's say that here we are from the parts of the Gothic series or Kingdom Come: Deliverance, to frame the game philosophy well.

More than an Elder Scrolls

Yet the start is typical of Elder Scrolls: in the role of an illegal immigrant who has boarded a ship to go in search of fortune in a new continent, we soon find ourselves alone and lost in a hostile world, awakened from terrible dreams full of death and terror. The first hours of Enderal Forgotten Stories serve as tutorials, while being anything but affordable.

Enderal Forgotten Stories, going beyond Skyrim

Before arriving on the continent and starting to explore it freely, it is necessary to overcome a series of dungeons where you can recover the original equipment and become familiar with the game systems. Defeated wolves and giant insects, and avoided powerful trolls, we enter a world that literally makes your jaw drop, so much alive and full of things to do. It is not wrong to say that it is much denser than those of any Elder Scrolls, at least the last few chapters. The reason is simple: where Bethesda continually resorts to compromise solutions in order not to alienate the mass audience, SureAI does everything to offer a hardcore experience designed for a user who is passionate about role-playing games. Wanting we are more from the parts of Arena, Daggerfall and Morrowind than from those of Oblivion and Skyrim itself. So we have enemies that aren't leveled with the player, which makes some places initially inaccessible, lively and dynamic cities full of characters to talk to, and gear that really reflects the efforts made to get it. No RPG action rat loot, then.

The progression system of the character itself is designed to favor a more radical approach to the entire experience: the growth of skills takes place by reading tomes that allow you to spend the accumulated experience points, tomes that must obviously be sought, especially the rarer ones, and that they force you to make very dangerous journeys. In this way, a more varied approach to gameplay is favored and, above all, it becomes essential to visit all the beautiful corners of the continent, characterized by a much more varied and rich geography than that of the Elder Scrolls, with places of great beauty, be they natural landscapes or buildings with very particular architectures.

Enderal Forgotten Stories, where to download it and requirements

Downloading Enderal Forgotten Stories is really simple, since just go to its Steam page and install it. The only prerequisite to be able to download it is the possession of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (the regular edition or the Legendary Edition). Enderal Forgotten Stories on its own is completely free. If you like, however, you can support the development team with a donation or by giving them money on Patreon.

Bethesda, learn

To impress of Enderal Forgotten Stories there are also other aspects, starting with those strictly productive. The player's initial goal is to get in touch with a group called The Order, and then unravel the mystery of the terrible Red Madness, a disease that is plaguing Enderal.

The story told by the game is not particularly original, but honestly it does not make you regret writing much more 'expensive' titles and with the passing of the missions it turns out to be really intriguing. Also noteworthy is the effort to dub all dialogues, which is not often seen even in commercial products. Needless to say, Enderal is also great from a technical point of view and double Skyrim (the basic version) of different lengths, thanks to the support of the modder community, which made it possible to implement advanced rendering effects and provided material of great quality, but also thanks to the wisdom of the development team, who worked a lot on the architecture and landscapes, to create fascinating places of them, which amazed regardless of textures and light effects. The soundtrack also deserves praise, not very original but characterized by really beautiful and engaging classic fantasy songs; the perfect accompaniment for our adventures.

Conclusions

If you own Skyrim and are passionate about RPGs, you really have no reason not to download and play Enderal Forgotten Stories: the quality is that of a commercial title, if not superior in some respects, but it is completely free. Some naivete here and there emerges, but the Forgotten Stories version is much more advanced than the 2016 one and frankly we have seen much worse in triple A productions, both in terms of writing and in terms of game systems. Just think of the latest Bioware productions ... If we had had to give it a vote, it would certainly have been well over nine, to say how much it involved and convinced us. In short, not giving him a chance would really be a crime.