# The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall

> The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall is Bethesda's huge 1996 role-playing game for MS-DOS, set in a procedurally generated region of the Iliac Bay.

Web page: https://emulationking.com/microsoft/windows/games/daggerfall/
Page updated: 2026-10-26

- Console: Windows
- Released: 1996
- Developer: Bethesda Softworks

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall was developed and published by Bethesda Softworks for MS-DOS in 1996. Its game world, the Iliac Bay region of High Rock and Hammerfell, is about the size of Great Britain, with thousands of towns, dungeons and villages, much of it generated by the computer.

The player is sent by the Emperor to the kingdom of Daggerfall to lay a ghost to rest and recover a letter, and the main story branches into several endings. Characters are built from a detailed skill system, and the game offers guilds, banks, houses, ships and a reputation system. Bethesda made it free to download in 2009; it is also [hosted on this site](/microsoft/ms-dos/games/the-elder-scrolls-ii-daggerfall/).

## The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall PC Ports

- [Daggerfall Unity](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/windows/games/daggerfall/ports/daggerfallunity/index.md): Daggerfall Unity is an open-source recreation of The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall in the Unity engine for Windows, macOS and Linux, with smooth controls, bug fixes and mod support.