As Bethesda promised, its proprietary launcher is shutting down and the games found on it are making their way to Steam. The company has begun to migrate its Fallout 76 players over to Steam starting today. And as of yesterday, some of its best classic games have made the jump. Namely, two of the original games in The Elder Scrolls saga, Arena and Daggerfall, are available now on Steam, along with Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.
I would say that most fans of The Elder Scrolls likely didn’t begin with Arena. The 1994 open-world RPG was released back when DOS ruled the PC gaming world. It’s old enough that marketers thought the best way to attract a new fanbase was to show as much skin as possible on the box art. I don’t believe that worked. The game was good enough to warrant many sequels, and it’s hard not to find a person who hasn’t played The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, either on PC, console, or a toaster.
Regardless, The Elder Scrolls: Arena and its s…
