Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is without doubt one of the extra stunning successes of 2025. Questline’s open-world RPG provides Arthurian legend the Elder Scrolls therapy, letting gamers discover a decaying, war-torn model of Avalon whereas guided by the ghost of King Arthur.
Tainted Grail’s uncommon world and intriguing questlines greater than made up for a number of tough edges, as Sam Desatoff defined in his Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon assessment. “Each NPC has one thing worthwhile to contribute, and most of them supply facet quests that add new wrinkles to the bigger story,” he wrote again in June. “They can be surprisingly humorous: you may assist a nobleman pretend his loss of life to get out of a loveless marriage, uncover the lair of an undead chef chasing the subsequent nice meal, help a lady who by accident turned her husband right into a pig, and extra.”
Questline has up to date Tainted Grail sporadically since launch. However the newest patch—v1.1—is by far the largest but. Not solely does it squash an unlimited array of bugs nibbling on the RPG’s underbelly, however it additionally provides a number of main options and a bunch of latest areas for gamers to discover.
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The headline replace is a New Recreation Plus mode, which resets the sport and allows you to run by way of it once more to experiment with totally different selections (or, should you’re something like me, make precisely the identical selections since you do not like change). In typical vogue, you get to maintain many of the tools you had on the finish of your first run, whereas the enemies you face can be considerably harder. Armour may even be debuffed for every NG+ stage, so the extra runs you do, the extra you may need to rely by yourself abilities.
Different new options embody a head-bobbing possibility for first-person gamers, and a “transmogrification” system that permits you to change the visible look of things to any comparable merchandise you’ve got found. In different phrases, should you just like the stats of a weapon or armour set, however do not like the way it seems, you possibly can swap its mannequin to one thing else.
Past this, the replace provides three new dungeons, six additional quests and greater than a dozen further gadgets together with new weapons and armour units. It additionally provides quite a few current missions and areas a tune up. Particularly, the patch makes substantial modifications to Tainted Grail’s third act, including three new caves to discover whereas additionally scattering considerably extra loot about to make exploration extra rewarding on this latter stage of the story.
The 1.1 replace is accessible now. As is trendy with huge updates like this, Questline has additionally put Tainted Grail on sale at a 20% low cost for the subsequent few days. This reduces the value to $36 (£30), which ain’t dangerous for a contemporary RPG. The low cost runs till September 16.
It has been a weirdly good 12 months for Elder Scrolls followers, though The Elder Scrolls 6 stays years away from launch. Other than the launch of Oblivion Remastered, Tainted Grail and Avowed each introduced huge chunks of Elder Scrolls-adjacent RPG motion to the PC this 12 months. The modding group has been on hearth too, with Tamriel Rebuilt including an enormous new area of Morrowind to discover and fan-made Oblivion remake Skyblivion gearing up for a launch later this 12 months, although a former dev on the challenge has forged doubt over these plans.
