OpenMW
OpenMW is an free and open-source game engine recreation that reimplements the one powering Bethesda Softworks' 2002 open-world role-playing game The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
- Flatpak
Features
- Moddable
- Achievements Supported
- Works Offline
- Endless gameplay
- Single player
- Ad-free
- Open World Game
Tags
- game-engine-recreation
OpenMW News & Activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about OpenMW
OpenMW 0.50.0 updates gamepad controls, expands Lua scripting, and adds Polish supportOpenMW 0.50.0 has been released introducing a major update to the open-source Morrowind engine, fea...
Recent activities
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What is OpenMW?
OpenMW is an free and open-source game engine recreation that reimplements the one powering Bethesda Softworks' 2002 open-world role-playing game The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.
The project aims to address issues with the original engine, as Morrowind has had no support or bug-fix updates for many years. The OpenMW engine is programmed in C++ and uses the Bullet physics engine, OpenAL-Soft for audio, MyGUI for window widgets, and SDL 2 for input. The launcher and OpenMW-CS tool use Qt for their graphical user interfaces. All the quests and other character choices of Morrowind and its official expansions and add-ons are fully playable in OpenMW, as are many third-party mods.
Comments and Reviews
an insane achievement by a dedicated community. i can run morrowind flawlessly on my dated android phone and hugely improves the game on all platforms. a gold standard for modding
It is only the mtor, also with failures. To play it you need the original game. It is not an alternative at all.
The game is not sold via Steam or GOG.
While not an alternative, this implementation of the Morrowind engine is great. I'm finally able to seamlessly load and run Morrowind on a Linux distribution without all the extra fuss.