Enderal is one of the best Role Playing Games I've ever played, unrelated to its production costs, commercial A+ games, total conversion or not.
The setting is fantasy, but the story touches upon relevant psychological, philosophical and existential themes that parallel reality, which the player can easily relate to.

I tried getting into Skyrim countless times due to its open sandbox nature and progress in it but I always kept adding too many mods and couldn't find the substance I needed and the motivation to complete the actual vanilla game quests.

Playing Enderal pretty much slashed that itch I just wanted to scratch for so long, and I never saw it coming. Go play it if you're looking for great story and writing, meaningful quests and modern Bethesda game in the same sentence.

Enderal is one of the best Role Playing Games I've ever played, unrelated to its production costs, commercial A+ games, total conversion or not. The setting is fantasy, but the story touches upon relevant psychological, philosophical and existential themes that parallel reality, which the player can easily relate to. I tried getting into Skyrim countless times due to its open sandbox nature and progress in it but I always kept adding too many mods and couldn't find the substance I needed and the motivation to complete the actual vanilla game quests. Playing Enderal pretty much slashed that itch I just wanted to scratch for so long, and I never saw it coming. Go play it if you're looking for great story and writing, meaningful quests and modern Bethesda game in the same sentence.