A new Elder Scrolls is still years away, but this fun Arthurian take on the formula is 50% off right now

It’s a little surprising there aren’t more The Elder Scrolls clones. Aside from Avowed, the only other example I can think of is Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon. It launched in May last year after a stint in early access, and the response was positive, perhaps surprisingly so, considering how tough it must be for a relatively young studio to make a game of this scale. Our reviewer wrote that it “puts an interesting spin on Arthurian legend and presents a competent world that plays like a love letter to the open-world first-person RPG genre.”

It’s a “dark reimagination” of Arthurian legends, set entirely on the island of Avalon. There are three distinct zones to explore—in this sense, it wends closer to Avowed—and it has all the usual distractions: you can fish, farm, cook, mine, smith weapons, mix spells, and sketch in your journal, between the usual bouts of dungeon crawling, overworld exploration, and “morally ambiguous” choice making.