Hello, my name is ColdBeer. Every two years I
make a new video about games more or less similar to Skyrim, and this is the biggest, fattest and
hugestestestest list so far. Watch it till the end, it may really surprise you.
Let’s start with
Outward
This is an open-world RPG where the cold of the night or an infected wound can be as dangerous as
a predator lurking in the dark. Outward delivers an immersive RPG experience coupled with survival
gameplay, offering a deeply-rewarding challenge for the most avid gamers.
You can play alone or co-op, even a split screen is a possibility. Ah, what
a pleasant surprise. I know, right? Finally a split screen for non racing and non shooter game.
Although you have to have a friend for that and let’s be fair and square and triangle, it may be
mission impossible for you. [Tom Cruise laughs]
Game will give you a sense of adventure and will
not guide you by hand with linear story. Although not everything is good - movement and combat
feels a bit clunky, voice acting could be better and character customization is very limited.
Anyway, it’s a nice game, hunt it on a sale.
Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt
Everyone knows this game. If you somehow avoided it, just play it. You don’t have to watch
this list any further, you have found your game, that’s it. Your search is over. Thank you for
watching. And for everyone else, instead of talking about what is Witcher 3 and it’s features,
I will tell you four interesting facts:
Fact One: Card game Gwent, which you can find
in Witcher, was created in a three days. Yep, that was a deadline for it's
creators and they surely delivered.
Fact two: Witcher's map is
20% bigger than Skyrim's.
Fact three: At the peak of the most distant
mountain on Toussaint's horizon sits a photo of the development team. Useless but nice to know.
And fact four: you are amazing person, never doubt that.
[kuuuuurwaaaaa]
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
This is basically a Skyrim, just without dragons, elves, giants and penis-people. Oh wait,
there were no penis-people in Skyrim either, so those games are even more alike. Kingdom
Come: Deliverance features a very realistic combat system that requires patience and carefully
calculated attacks instead of the flailing around like Elder Scrolls veterans are used to. Game
was made on 5 million dollar budget. It may seem a lot for a casual folk like you and me,
but keep in mind that Skyrim’s development cost was roughly around 100 million. So, maybe
that’s why in Kingdom Come you won’t find any elves or vampires - they had money only to
make people. And not even penis-people.
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
This game has a ridiculous story. You see, the State of Rhode Island greenlit an
astonishing amount of $75 million dollars to fund the project. Yes, the government itself
gave the money to developers and ordered to make a wonderful game. You know what happened?
Game managed to claw back only 4,5 million, and by this whole state of Rhode Island
almost went bankrupt. About 1 million people live in there, so you can imagine that every
citizen, every single one of them, lost about 70 dollars from this deal. Tha... that is crazy.
Now game is getting a remaster version. Nothing concrete yet, but Microsoft accidentally
listed the game prematurely on its storefront. It will probably be released this September. So
keep an eye on it. You know why? Because when government asked developers to make a wonderful
game - they delivered. Game is amazing. Despite of it being a financial disaster it is one of
the best RPG games ever created. I mean it.
Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Although it can look a bit childish for a mature player, It has a massive, memorable
open world, and when it first showed up, many were thinking about Skyrim, just in a Zelda
universe. You can go anywhere your eyes can see, fight tons of monsters, evil spirits and even
a few dragons. The best thing that you can fly. Well, mostly downwards, but in this world it
feels amazing. It is fun to play no matter what your age is. If your kid has Nintendo
Switch just take his portable console by force, you are stronger, who are you afraid of?
And then just wake up your inner child and take control of this green guy who’s name, if I
remember right, is Zelda. (Crickets chirping). Call me Zelda one more moth****king time. Alright,
alright, geez. Subscribe for more dad jokes.
Horizon series
I say series, because quite soon you can play part 2 of
the game on a Playstation 5. Here you will control the girl named Aloy and will try to
figure out what happened to the world and why there are tons of massive mechanical
animals and dinosaurs roaming around.
This is a post-apocalyptic game, meaning that
here you will find various ruins and ancient secrets. Although, game is trying to be good
for everyone, so here you will find no gore and no boobs. Yeah, Aloy will not show
you hers and also you will not find some old Playboy magazine hidden in ancient ruins.
Of course Horizon Zero Dawn is more cruel than, let’s say, Breath of the Wild, but when you play
it, deep down you feel that it could be made better. And main protagonist is kinda boring
character. She is like 18 or 19 years old, so basically every other character in game
has more life experience than she does.
Isles of Adalar
This is an open world fantasy RPG that can be played in first or third person. Actually
this game reminded me of Morrowind very much. In my opinion one of the most important things in the
Elder Scrolls universe is that you can actually pick up items from the world and then put them
into your inventory. If you see roll of cloth, shield, vodka or skooma bottle on the
table, you can actually pick it up and you can do the same here in Isles of Adalar.
It is an Indie game, so don't expect triple A quality from it like you never expect moonshine
you have bought from shady dealer to be as good as Swedish or Lithuanian vodka.
I tried to play the demo version, you can find it on Steam, and in my opinion it was quite
good. Well, it had many problems, like terrible fisheyed field of view. You can constantly feel
that something is off no matter how you adjust it. It feels like some VR game was made to be not
to be VR anymore. Anyway, I have high hopes that something really cool will hatch and then crawl
out from this a bit ugly duckling one day.
Greedfall
Explore uncharted new lands as you set foot on a remote island seeping with magic, and filled with
riches, lost secrets, and fantastic creatures. Here you can complete quests and objectives in
a multitude of different ways – through combat, diplomacy, deception, or even stealth.
Also you will be given complete freedom in character progression – customize your appearance,
freely choose your abilities, spells and skills and play as male or female. Sadly you can’t play
as ladyboy and there is no vodka bender class. So if you had high hopes when I said complete
freedom, now I just shattered them. I’m sorry.
Although most of the people find this game good,
I should mention that Greedfall is very grindy, also you can feel the lack of enemy variety and
it has terrible face animations. It feels like they are made out of rubber and someone is
just pulling the strings to make them smile or open their mouths. Rubber, yeah, exactly how
it looks like. Although, if you think about that, that’s not the worst material they can be
made of... [Crickets chirping]. Nevertheless, in my opinion this game is strong 8 vodkas out
of 10, but definitely not a masterpiece.
Gothic series
What can I say, Gothic games are great, from the first Gothic game released
in 2001 to the last spin-off, released in 2010 and named ArcaniA - those open world RPGs
have immersive stories, original worlds and gameplay that pin you to your chair better than
vodka. Even now you can download various graphic enhancement mods so they look shiny as new.
So if you played all the good old games and never heard the news, now you may think, what
the hell am I showing you now, it's definitely not the old good games no matter how many
graphic enhancement mods you will install.
Well, that is true, in a way, because Gothic
remake is happening and this is a video from its gameplay. THQ Nordic has confirmed its
intention to make a full Gothic remake after the recently-released playable teaser proved popular.
If you own any Gothic or any Piranha Bytes game in general on Steam, you can try this demo version of
remade Gothic by yourself absolutely free.
Risen series
Same developers as Gothic, similar gameplay, but a bit less love from the
players. There are three games, released in 2009, 2012 and in 2014 accordingly. First game
has the best reviews and third one has even a little bit of hate, because,
it really has a bit boring plot and somewhat watered down gameplay to suit
Xbox and PS3 bad animations and graphics.
But, to be fair, even Elder Scrolls Oblivion had
problems because of that back in a day, and now it is considered a masterpiece. At least by me.
So, it is probably best to decide by yourself if you like the games or not. Add them to your
wishlist, wait for a sale and test it out.
Might & Magic series
If you like oldschool games, I’m totally recommending you to try Might & Magic
6, 7 and 8, because earlier games are so old, they are not even created for Windows and are
just a dungeon crawlers not open world games.
Starting from the sixth part, games were made when
3D technologies were already available, so they have a semi-open world where you can roam in any
direction, but all enemies are just 2D sprites, because computers back then had...
Unlimited power!
Nope, uh-uh, quite the opposite. They
were extremely limited and lame.
You had to have 32 Megabytes of RAM to run
Might & Magic VI smoothly, the same amount was required for, in example, Half-life that was
released in the same year, but Half-life wasn’t open world so it could make better graphics in
smaller environments and PC’s were still able to run it without twitching and melting.
If you can live with that, I can promise you that in those games you will find absolutely
amazing plot and feeling of adventure. If you are a fan of Heroes of Might and Magic games,
here you will find same monsters and characters, which is super cool - at least it was
for me. Although, avoid part 9, because it was created fully in 3D and it looks ugly.
They had to sacrifice almost all the feeling of open world because of that, so it even plays
ugly. I have finished the game back then, found some cool moments, but I can’t recommend it.
You know It’s like vodka, but instead of a bottle you have a plastic bag and instead
of glass you have your own palms, so you pour this vodka on your palms and
lick it. That is exactly the feeling when you play Might & Magic 9. It’s a good thing story
wise but everything else is extremely wrong.
And also you may try Might and Magic X, which is
quite a new game, released in 2014 and powered by nostalgia, but it is more like old school dungeon
crawler than an semi-open world game, because it is based on those older Might & Magic games.
Dragon Age series
These just like Star Wars: Knights of the
Old Republic and Mass Effect games games were developed by the team at BioWare, so you can
expect it to have similar structure where you are just one member of your party. In Skyrim we
usually went to the dungeons alone or maybe took moded sexy elf companion together, more
as a mascot than an actual help, but here your party members are as strong as you are.
That might be a thing that repulses many loners, but the setting of fantasy world filled with
dangers, dungeons and dragons is very similar to the Elder Scrolls games. And you know what? As
well as in Skyrim, here are also zero penis-people as well. Anyway, the key point of this is
simple: I like Skyrim and I like Dragon Age. So, probably you will too. Give it a try.
There are currently three games available, some are loved more than the others, but if
you look from a perspective, they are all great and more or less interesting.
Dragon Age 4 is in the making right now, but it won't be available for masses at
least until late year of 2022.
Middle Earth Shadow of War and Shadow of Mordor
The best thing about playing Middle-earth games is that they make you feel overpowered
without sacrificing the fear of defeat.
Games have great free-flowing combat and a huge,
epic-looking open world full of Lord of the Rings lore to find, but what makes it special is
what’s going on in the background: an intriguing hierarchy of enemies that gives every victory
and defeat extra meaning. I’m talking about exceptional Nemesis system that makes almost
every encounter with a named enemy a memorable battle. Imagine, when next time you’ll make a
potato salad, give a name to every single potato before cutting them down - the final result will
definitely taste better. Hobbits would approve.
Anyway, in game you can use direct melee combat,
ranged attacks, stealth based moves and even turn enemies against each other. And you
also can collect orcs and send them to battles. Yes, just don’t get too attached
to any of them, they tend to die a lot, even if their opponent is weaker. Although you can
probably find a mod or two that fixes that.
Fallout New Vegas
This time it’s not a fantasy title, but I couldn’t just leave it aside. The
possibility of you liking Skyrim and not liking Fallout: New Vegas is very slim.
Game was sandwiched in-between Fallout 3 and 4, and gets overshadowed a bit by
its younger and older brothers.
Many people think that New Vegas is a simple DLC
of Fallout 3, but it’s a completely different and stand alone game with, I dare to say,
way better story than Fallout 3 and 4.
Also I should mention that Fallout New Vegas
Remake is in the works right now by a team of fans. It is being made using Fallout 4 engine
and so far looks really good. You can see the comparison of old and new on screen right
now. But I have to be honest, the works can take a long time and similar projects usually die
silently after some time, because when nobody is paying you it is hard to keep focus no matter how
passionate you are, especially when it’s not your own creation and you’re just remaking someone
other’s epic work. Let’s hope I’m wrong.
Divinity II: Developer's Cut
Here you can climb high and vaporize all that stands in your way as you strategically
use both your human & dragon forms to defeat the enemy and become the ultimate Dragon Knight!
Developer's Cut includes the ultimate edition of Divinity II, good for 100+ hours of gameplay,
as well as the brand new Developer Mode where you can play as any creature you like. Yes,
here you can play the original version, or experience the game like the designers
did and fool around with console commands! Ever wanted to test your new skills
on a hoard of a hundred goblins? Go for it! Ever wondered what it would be like to
explore the game-world in the disguise of a troll or goblin? Well there you go! Discover
a whole range of spectacular developer commands and feel like a real wizard!
Game has very positive reviews on Steam and despite the age it is still very good
looking. Not like you and me, my friend.
Crimson Desert
This is a very good looking open world game made in South Korea.
It is not released yet, but I think it has to be on this list. Here you will journey
through a vast realm fractured by conflict, a cold and callous deserts, and breathtaking
cities. Game is open world, but it's also MMORPG
NOOOOO!
Yes, yes, release your anger. I know, it’s bad, but hold
your horses! Game offers story-rich single player campaign teeming with engaging quests.
It seems that developers are trying to sit on two chairs at once and for that you need quite a
wide ass. Let’s hope they have it, because game, at least from this trailer, and no other
exists at the time of making this video, it looks gorgeous and I would definitely play
that single player campaign they offer.
Two Worlds 2
The world is ruled by a dark lord extremely fond of conducting experiments involving
black magic. He drains his power from the soul of your sister. Being gradually deprived of her
energy, she is getting weaker each day.
Here you will explore many kinds of new
environments, such as tropical jungles or hot savannas inhabited by various species of rhinos
and ostriches. The game also features reptiles and many other wild and familiar fauna.
By the way, have you noticed that in every single fantasy game there are a lot of weird creatures
or mutated ones, like giant spiders and scorpions, but there are always normal wolves?
Yeah, wolves are just like in a real life, and everything else is crazy shit ass creatures
with no ties to reality. So, in Two worlds, when you see just normal ostriches and
rhinos and other normal real life fauna, something feels way off, don’t you think?
So, apart from exploring the game world on foot, you can also go by horse or a boat.
And teleports can be used as well. Game is considered as OKish - like 6 or 7 vodkas
out of 10, It has many issues, but none of them are game-breaking, so try it without fear,
just don’t expect masterpiece material.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Of all Assassin’s Creed games Odyssey and maybe also Origins are the
most Skyrim like. And by all means, these are very different games than Elder
Scrolls, I considered not to include them at all, but later I decided to put them in because I can
guarantee that if you like Skyrim, there is a huge chance that you will like Odyssey as well.
Keeping in mind that the Odyssey isn’t realistic and among your enemies are various monsters and
mythological beasts from legends, like Medusa in example, it really has some high fantasy vibes.
Here you will also have weapons with supernatural abilities like increased strength or the ability
to instantly knock out an opponent's shield. I don’t think I should tell you something
more about Assassin’s Creed in general, there are plenty of them and if you were
not living under the rock in the bottom of the ocean or amongst penis-people, you know what
Assassin’s Creed games are and how they work.
Bound by Flame
This is a heroic fantasy RPG that has you playing as a mercenary possessed by a demon.
Ok, to make this boring oficial description more fun, let’s change every demon word
with vodka. Let’s start again.
This is a heroic fantasy RPG that has you
playing as a mercenary possessed by a vodka.
In the grasp of vodka, you must choose between the
vodka within you, and your humanity. Should you choose the latter, you must repel the vodka’s
influence and develop truly heroic skills.
As dangers and enemies close down on
you, always more fearsome and terrifying, you will be tempted to yield a bit more of your
soul to the vodka in order to gain more power… and as the vodka gains more of your soul, your
physical transformation becomes more obvious.
Depending on your choices and your
relationship with vodka, the chapters offer different experiences, quests and
scenarios. The real-time battles are both dynamic and quite impressive; if you start your
adventure by mastering the basics of combat, assassination, and eventually fire magic,
you can later specialize by unlocking and improving many skills that you will use in
each of the three talent trees. Title has some annoying bugs and quite terrible voice acting,
but in general it’s an OK game to try.
Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord
Explore, raid and conquer your way across the vast continent of Calradia, making friends
and enemies along the way. Raise your own army and lead it into battle, commanding and fighting
alongside your troops in the thick of the action. Remember battles between Imperials and
Stormcloaks? Here you will find way another level of that. So, slay your foes using the game’s
deep and intuitive combat system that is easy to learn but difficult to master.
Just like sex. Ask penis-people, they will confirm.
Anyway, keep in mind that Bannerlord is in Early Access, so it can be buggy, glitchy and not
finished. Despite of that game is a proud owner of very positive reviews on Steam. One reviewer,
named Masky said that his game is like falling into a very deep well. Once you fall in you are
never getting out. Was he imagining a well of vodka? Oh well, we may never know.
And now I want to share with you most interesting thing about Skyrim I have found
recently - DLC named Apotheosis. It’s a fan made project, but don’t get fooled, it is being
made by true professionals of their craft.
Apotheosis is set across 16 wastes of Oblivion
and the Dreamsleeve, home of the forgotten dead. Reawakened after years of slumber, you are
tasked with reassembling the Heart of Lorkhan, survive eldritch horrors and discover
stories untold. Here you will encounter unique bosses with challenging mechanics,
fully voiced quests with memorable characters and personal stories. You will also discover and
assemble rare and powerful artifacts, armors, outfits, spells and weapons. Mod is not released
yet, and we may have to wait for while for that, but it is obviously something
great and truly majestic.
I spent a month making this video and
now I realised that I forgot to include Dragon’s Dogma. Ah, whatever, at least
I have mentioned it. It’s a nice game, always on sale. And I hope that you already tried
Morrowind and Oblivion, because I haven’t included these in the list for being too obvious.
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