


If you’re interested in some more recent RPGs and how they perform, be sure to check out our breakdown of 22 role-playing games running on the Steam Deck. All of these games should be able to hit hundreds of frames per second on any modern machine. The nice thing about playing games so old that they’re allowed to buy alcohol is that you can run them on a toaster (so long as the toaster runs Windows). That’s thousands of times more land to explore than the world of Skyrim, and Daggerfall is even bigger. The world map of Arena is estimated to be approximately 160,000 square kilometers, about the size of the state of Georgia in the real world, and you can explore every inch. With much simpler graphics and game engines, these games are absolutely enormous. While Arena and Daggerfall were incredibly innovative for their time, their mechanics and interfaces are so far removed from modern games that you might find them hard to even begin. You’re all set! The Unity port should now launch from Steam instead of the DOSBox version.If you’ve never played 1990s PC RPGs, prepare for a bit of culture shock. The window will turn green if it recognizes it as valid. Run the Unity executable that we renamed to “DOSbox.exe” and use the interface to select the folder with the Daggerfall game files, likely “\The Elder Scrolls Daggerfall\DF\DAGGER”.If this is the version provided by Interkarma, it should just be data for the “ARENA2” directory.

Extract the second copy of Daggerfall that you downloaded to “The Elder Scrolls Daggerfall\DF\DAGGER”.It should look like the below when complete. In the same folder, rename the subfolder “DaggerfallUnity_Data” to “DOSBox_data”.In the new “DOSBox-0.74” folder, rename “DaggerfallUnity.exe” to “DOSbox.exe”.Create another folder named “DOSBox-0.74” and extract the files for DF Unity into it.I personally put a “-backup” on the end of it, but whatever floats your boat. In the Steam Daggerfall folder, rename the folder “DOSBox-0.74” to something else.As of writing this is 0.13.5 Beta but the process is unlikely to change for later versions. 2) Right-click The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition. Download the current release of Daggerfall Unity through the Github link above. Fix 3: Verify integrity of game files 1) Log in Steam and click LIBRARY.Interkarma provides a Google Drive link in his setup guide that is ideal, but you can use other versions such as the ones from UESP or GOG if you prefer. Download a separate, updated version of the Daggerfall data files.You can put the files anywhere you choose, but we want Steam to consider it installed.
