Daggerfall Unity 1.0 is now available! After several years in development, and the efforts of many people, Daggerfall Unity is finally considered complete. The project will now move into post-release community support and maintenance.

What is Daggerfall Unity?

Daggerfall Unity is an open source recreation of Daggerfall in the Unity engine created by Daggerfall Workshop.

Experience the adventure and intrigue of Daggerfall with all of its original charm along with hundreds of fixes, quality of life enhancements, and extensive mod support.

Classic Daggerfall Plus

Cross-platform without emulation (Windows/Linux/Mac)
Retro graphics are boosted by modern engine and lighting
High resolution widescreen with classic style
Optionally play in retro mode 320×200 or 640×400 with VGA palettes
Optionally overhaul the graphics and gameplay with mods
Huge draw distances even without mods
Smooth first-person controls
Quality of life enhancements
Extensive mod support with an active creator community
Translation support via community mods

Get Daggerfall Unity

Daggerfall Unity requires a free copy of DOS Daggerfall to run. This provides all necessary game assets such as textures, 3D models, and sound effects.

You can get a free copy of DOS Daggerfall from Steam and a free copy of Daggerfall Unity from the Releases page. Then simply unzip the latest version of Daggerfall Unity to its own folder and point it to the DOS version. Daggerfall Unity will take care of everything else.

Here are a couple of links with more detailed steps to help you get started using either Steam or a cross-platform process.

System Requirements

Daggerfall Unity has the following system requirements. Please note that optional mods may substantially increase system requirements or cause game to become less stable.

Minimum

Operating system: Windows, Linux, MacOS
Processor: Intel i3 (Skylake) equivalent
Graphics: DirectX 11 capable with 1GB video memory and up-to-date drivers
Memory: 2GB system RAM

Featured Mods

Daggerfall Unity has an active mod community with hundreds of incredible mods. It’s impossible to feature them all, but here’s a sampling of a few popular mods that represent a variety of mods the community has created. They range from graphical overhauls, to new quests, new guilds, adding new world areas, and changing game formulas and other behaviours.

DREAM

The Daggerfall Remaster Enchanted Art Mod (DREAM) upgrades game assets including sound, music, videos & all graphics found in the game. It goes beyond a restoration and additionally fixes the old quirks, bugs and increases variety/fidelity everywhere possible.

Link to DREAM on Nexus

Quest Pack 1

This quest pack offers 195 original new quests for Daggerfall Unity, mostly for the game’s guilds.

Link to Quest Pack 1 on Nexus

Archaeologists

Enhance Daggerfall Unity gameplay by making language skills more viable and adding a new guild to the game, called “The Archaeologists Guild”. Their mission is to delve into the history of Tamriel and they’re interested in all creatures and races who have lived or still live there. Joining gives access to locator devices to aid in dungeon delving.

Link to Archaeologists on Nexus

World of Daggerfall Project

From the ashes of Daggerfall’s past, experience the world of Daggerfall as originally envisioned. With glorious mountain tops that reach for the heavens, and countless new locations to explore.

Link to World of Daggerfall Project on Nexus

Finding My Religion

Finding My Religion is a multi-release visual and gameplay overhaul of Daggerfall’s religions. The current release is “Detailed Temples”, which decorates and redesigns the temples’ according to the worshipped deity’s sphere of influence. Julianos boasts a bigger library than others, Kynareth has an indoor garden, Mara has a birthing room and more. Each temple have been expanded downwards, with priests’ quarters and additional rooms for all service members. They also feature a crypt where people of importance have been buried.

Link to Finding My Religion on Nexus

Physical Combat And Armor Overhaul

Instead of increasing chance to avoid an attack completely, armor now reduces the damage you take, based on the material as well as the type of attack. Skills now determine most of your chance to avoid attacks, including many more features.

Link to Physical Combat And Armor Overhaul on Nexus

Links

Daggerfall Unity Nexus – Discover more mods for Daggerfall Unity
Lysandus’ Tomb Discord – Join an active growing community
Daggerfall Workshop – Follow the development of Daggerfall Unity
Workshop Forums – Join the forum community
Reddit – Join the Daggerfall Unity subreddit
Twitter – Follow lead developer on Twitter for more news

If you play using the “GOG Cut” release of Daggerfall Unity, please consider this version is now almost two years out of date and comes preloaded with dozens of mods. It’s buggy, slow, and completely changes how the game looks and plays. The Daggerfall Unity development team did not assemble the “GOG Cut” release and in no way recommend it to play Daggerfall Unity.

Until GOG update the version of Daggerfall Unity on their store, the best outcome is to migrate away from GOG Cut to a standard and up-to-date release of Daggerfall Unity.

Here’s the process to remove GOG Cut and get the best outcome from a fresh install.

Step 1 – Remove GOG Cut

If you installed GOG Cut using GOG Galaxy, you can remove it from GOG Galaxy like below:

You can also remove from Windows using “Add or remove programs” and searching for GOG Cut like below:

Important

When uninstalling GOG Cut make sure you do not select the below option to remove save games and data if you have a game in progress. Enabling this setting will delete your saves. Instead, we will manually delete settings in the next step.

When ready, click Uninstall to remove GOG Cut.

Step 2 – Delete settings.ini

GOG Cut deploys a poorly optimized and custom version of game settings. To get the best result, please delete this settings file so you’re starting fresh.

You’ll find settings.ini in the Daggerfall Unity persistent data folder along with your saves, keybinds, and logs. On Windows this is in the following path.

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\LocalLow\Daggerfall Workshop\Daggerfall Unity

Note that AppData is a hidden folder on Windows, so you might need to show hidden files or manually enter the path. Here’s a screenshot showing the full path from a live install with settings.ini highlighted.

You can safely delete settings.ini. Daggerfall Unity will create a fresh file with defaults next time you run the game.

Optionally, you can delete the KeyBinds.txt file to set your key bindings back to default as well. But if you’ve become accustomed to GOG Cut’s key bindings, it’s OK to leave this file alone.

Step 3 – Install Daggerfall Unity

Installing Daggerfall Unity manually is a simple process that only takes a few minutes. Here are two supported methods of installing Daggerfall Unity. These will take you through the entire setup process.

Installing Daggerfall Unity (Windows, Linux, Mac)

Using Steam Release of Daggerfall with Daggerfall Unity

Step 4 – Optionally Re-enable Click to Attack

If you’ve been playing GOG Cut for any length of time, you may have become accustomed to “click to attack”, which GOG Cut enabled by default. If you prefer click attacks over classic Daggerfall’s mouse gesture attacks, you can re-enable clicks using the following setting right on the launcher.

Conclusion

You’re done! You now have an up-to-date install of Daggerfall Unity with default settings.

We hope you enjoy playing Daggerfall Unity!

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