Six months following Skyrim, Capcom released Dragon’s Dogma -an action, role-playing game that, let’s face it, looked a whole lot like Skyrim on the surface. RELATED: 'The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim' Is Getting an Anniversary Re-Release - and Now, You Can Actually Fish Even a game as established (and subsequently beloved) as The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (which came out two years later) was branded by the developers with a “ Skyrim in a Game of Thrones sauce” tag.
Whether in support of Bethesda’s sprawling epic, or in defiance to it, every game that was released that shared any kind of thematic or mechanic elements was placed under the Skyrim microscope. When it was arrived, it brought with it the barometer on which all open world, medieval fantasy games would be measured. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim arrived in November, 2011.
