The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Game of the Year Edition
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
The player can buy, consume, and trade fantasy alcohol (sujamma, flin, mazte) and the narcotic skooma and moon sugar, which cause intoxication effects.
Melee and spell combat against humanoid bandits, cultists, and creatures, with small blood effects and dated visuals but no gore or dismemberment.
Central plot elements include institutionalized slavery of Khajiit and Argonians, a disfiguring plague (corprus), assassination guilds, and religious betrayal.
The player can steal, pickpocket, and murder NPCs and can join a thieves' guild and legal assassin order that reward such acts.
Ancestral tombs, Daedric ruins, and diseased ash creatures create occasional grim, spooky atmosphere.
Fighting and killing fictional beasts such as guar, kagouti, nix-hounds, and cliff racers is a routine combat mechanic.
In-game books include bawdy jokes and innuendo, with no depicted nudity or sexual acts.
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What it is
Morrowind is a single-player, open-ended fantasy role-playing game where you create a custom character and explore the volcanic island of Vvardenfell, taking on a sprawling main quest about prophecy and a plague-spreading god alongside countless side quests and guild storylines. Play involves dice-roll-based melee and spell combat against humans, elves, and monsters with light blood effects but no gore or dismemberment. The world contains a fictional drug trade (skooma and moon sugar) and fantasy alcohols the player can consume, an openly depicted slave-holding society, assassination and thievery guilds, and grim tombs and diseased creatures. There is no sexual content beyond bawdy book humor, no nudity, and no online or purchase features. The GOTY edition bundles the Tribunal and Bloodmoon expansions.
How it's framed
The game presents a morally gray, faction-driven world where the player is free to help or exploit others; theft, drug use, slavery, and killing are available choices with in-world consequences rather than being celebrated or condemned, and the story treats its religious and political factions as ambiguous power structures the player must navigate.
Details
- Developer
- Bethesda Game Studios
- Publisher
- Bethesda Softworks
- Released
- Jun 16, 2009
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