Elder Scrolls
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Elder Scrolls

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An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire is a first-person role-playing game developed in 1997 by Bethesda Softworks for MS-DOS. It is the first of two Elder Scrolls adventure games and takes place in the Battlespire academy.

all the same strategies from the single player. This was done through the Mplayer multiplayer network which is now GameSpy. Though no longer supported by Mplayer/GameSpy Arcade, one can still play through the Kali multiplayer network client, which supports and works with all the features in the game.



The game requires a DOS emulator in order to be run on modern operating systems. However, given that it is one of the most resource-demanding DOS games ever released commercially, as of 2009 the emulation overhead causes even relatively modern PCs to run the game sluggishly in an emulator.


There are also some other marked differences between this game and its predecessors:

  • Lack of a rest feature.
  • Lack of shops or gold (broken or lost equipment must be replaced with randomized drops, either from slain NPCs or treasure piles).
  • Enemies do not reset. They are also not randomized.
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