Enderal is absolutely free for Skyrim owners (that is the original Skyrim, not 2016's Special Edition) and to be frank, after dumping so much time into it over the last couple weeks I feel like I'm effectively robbing someone blind. What's new this time is that this is essentially a soft re-launch of the game on Steam, complete with official achievements, new questlines, new talent trees, and the sorts of tweaks and features you'd expect to see in the end-year definitive package for a big retail title. It originally came out back in 2016, and it won several 'Mod of the Year' accolades back then already. Some of the nitty gritty to get out of the way first: Enderal in itself isn't a new release. It turns out that I didn't have to wait long at all because Enderal: Forgotten Stories, a total conversion mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim from German modding team SureAI released on Steam last month, and 80 hours later I'm a little bit floored with how much fun I've had with it. It was my first real experience with a mod of that scale, and it left me open to trying out similar fan-created works in the future.
Late last year I provided my thoughts on Fallout: New California, a total conversion for Fallout: New Vegas, and while I was not completely blown away, I was genuinely impressed at the level of creativity on display with the passion project.
