The final update arrived yesterday for the huge (and extremely impressive) free Skyrim total conversion mode Enderal. It’s a small patch, but it’s a little annoying that the developers are now working on a new commercial project. They give no hint as to what it might be, but considering the years they spent with Enderal as well as Oblivion mod Nehrim, it’s hard not to assume / hope it could be a fantasy RPG dealio be not. Holding thumbs?
Enderal tells a whole new story in a whole new world, using Skyrim as the technological field for a game that is familiar but different. Richard Cobbett remarked in our Enderal review, “A lot of the DNA they come from games like Gothic and The Witcher, and most systems are changed in some way.” And it’s big, and even gets its own expansion. Three and a half years after its initial release, it is now complete.
“This patch will be the last one for Enderal because we no longer have the free time we had to keep it up!” developers SureAI said in Sunday’s announcement (seen by PCG). “It also means we will not create a gateway for Skyrim Special Edition.”
That second part is a pity. Be nice to have the game on Bethesda’s slightly trendy version, both for its small technical improvements and for people who do not own the non-special version. But they have good reason to be busy.
“SureAI is currently working on a new, commercial project that will hopefully be announced this year,” they teased. SureAI’s website contains a “Soon TM” on their Games page.
That’s it. That’s all they say. No tips for even genre. But given that they’re been making their own fantasy RPG series for over a decade and even coming up with a trilogy of Enderal books, I would assume it’s in similar lines. Unless they are already so sick of fantasy that their escapist fantasy would be a first-person shooter about American soldiers conducting high-caliber diplomacy in a fictional post-Soviet state. But probably not, right?
You can download Enderal for Skyrim from Steam. Nehrim is also available on Steam for Oblivion.
Speaking of Elder Scrolls mods that yield commercial games, this should be the year we finally see the fancy remake of The Forgotten City, the neat Skyrim mod about a city caught in a strange time loop. After a long delay, it is now due to the launch of this spring. Our Katharine spoke to one of the developers in 2019, which I still want to say was last year, but definitely not.