With Bethesda making us wait going on 15 long years for the next Elder Scrolls game (I’m not including Oblivion Remastered), we’ve been left to our own devices. A phenomenon I’ve noticed spike as of late is calls for a Morrowind remaster, and a lot of chatter surrounding Bethesda’s seminal 2002 RPG in general, like game devs weighing in on how it would fare if it came out today, and the history behind The Lusty Argonian Maid. We’re all getting cabin fever.
To make up for it not being ported to every platform in existence like its older sibling Skyrim, crafty Reddit user Dumpster Buddy (as spotted by Eurogamer) has somehow managed to get Morrowind running in your browser.
“I got OpenMW (the open-source Morrowind engine) compiling to WebAssembly,” they explain, “so the whole game runs in a browser tab now. You open a link and you’re standing in Seyda Neen. No install, no launcher.”
The most baffling detail is that it’s the actual game engine flowing through your browser, “not a stream and not an emulator.” It looks exactly like it would if you booted it up from Steam, you can save your progress, and it has controller and mod support. The developer is even considering adding features like multiplayer and a mod manager to their makeshift browser port.