Open-World RPGs That Punish You For Trying To Play Like Skyrim

For many open-world RPG players, The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim is a comfort game. Even for a game that’s over ten years old, it manages to tick a lot of boxes and get quite a few things right. For one, you have total freedom to do whatever you want. It’s not exactly a sandbox experience, but you start from a tabula rasa character and build them however you want. Once you’re out of Helgen, nothing stops you from going wherever the road takes you. The possibilities are endless and overwhelming in all the good ways.