10 Biggest Open World Maps In Video Games

4: The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall – 62,000 Square Miles

It totally makes sense for a massively multiplayer game or one featuring super fast vehicles to need a gigantic map, which makes it all the more impressive that one of the biggest maps on this list is for a single player RPG.

And not just any single player RPG, a single player RPG from 1996. And it’s still one of the biggest video game maps ever.

If anyone was going to pull this off it would be Bethesda and that’s just what they did with their procedurally-generated map for Daggerfall, the second game in the Elder Scrolls series. This one is far larger than any other game in the series, coming in at 62,000 square miles. While main quest locations were hand-crafted, as were many elements that made up the sprawling regions of High Rock and Hammerfell in Tamriel, procedural generation allowed the world to really feel like an expansive fantasy place primed for exploration. And it’s a world worth exploring with critically acclaimed RPG mechanics and deep questing pathways that revolutionised the genre.

You’ll be able to come across around 15,000 towns and 750,000 NPCs. I mean, you probably won’t be able to get to them all, but you could.