--- title: You can now play the entirety of Morrowind in your... description: OpenMW-Web is a browser-based port of OpenMW, the open-source Morrowind engine, that runs the actual game engine natively in the browser without installation... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/you-can-now-play-the-entirety-of-morrowind-in-your-browser-because-why-not-q071uuqvb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: You can now play the entirety of Morrowind in your browser, because why not | daily.dev og:description: OpenMW-Web is a browser-based port of OpenMW, the open-source Morrowind engine, that runs the actual game engine natively in the browser without installation... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/you-can-now-play-the-entirety-of-morrowind-in-your-browser-because-why-not-q071uuqvb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Q071UUQvb.png og:image:alt: You can now play the entirety of Morrowind in your browser, because why not og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # You can now play the entirety of Morrowind in your browser, because why not **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 2 min read · 27 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary OpenMW-Web is a browser-based port of OpenMW, the open-source Morrowind engine, that runs the actual game engine natively in the browser without installation or extensions. It supports shadows, water rendering, save games, and gamepad input. A free example world is available, and players can point it at their own local Morrowind files to play the full game without uploading anything. It currently works best in Chrome, Edge, and Brave. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Can you play Morrowind directly in a web browser without installing anything? Yes, a project called OpenMW-Web runs the actual open-source OpenMW game engine directly in a browser tab with no installation or extensions required. Shadows, water, save files, and gamepad support all work because it runs the real engine rather than a stream or emulator. A free example world is available, or you can point it at your own local Morrowind installation, which reads game files straight off your disk without uploading anything. It currently works best in desktop Chrome, Edge, or Brave. _daily.dev surfaces experimental engine ports like this for developers curious how far browser runtimes can go._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@devmandan** · 5 upvotes > I love Morrowind but this is getting silly. Just drop the "Morrowind now runs on a pregnancy test." article and leave. **@taiwofrancis** · 0 upvotes > Love seeing projects like this. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [See The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Running In UE5.6](https://daily.dev/posts/see-the-elder-scrolls-iii-morrowind-running-in-ue5-6-n3vdd2vej) · 80 LEVEL · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Half-Life 2 is now playable in your browser thanks to a three-month project from a teenager](https://daily.dev/posts/half-life-2-is-now-playable-in-your-browser-thanks-to-a-three-month-project-from-a-teenager-4f1oga4qq) · XDA Developers · 112 upvotes · 15 comments - [OpenMW 0.50.0 Released\!](https://daily.dev/posts/openmw-0-50-0-released--ffa71q31u) · Hacker News · 18 upvotes · 1 comments - [Why Browser Games Are Still a Great Way to Play in 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/why-browser-games-are-still-a-great-way-to-play-in-2026-uo09nfdcw) · Medium · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#webassembly](https://daily.dev/tags/webassembly) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/you-can-now-play-the-entirety-of-morrowind-in-your-browser-because-why-not-q071uuqvb) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"You can now play the entirety of Morrowind in your browser, because why not","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/you-can-now-play-the-entirety-of-morrowind-in-your-browser-because-why-not-q071uuqvb","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/you-can-now-play-the-entirety-of-morrowind-in-your-browser-because-why-not-q071uuqvb"},"datePublished":"2026-07-29T05:25:48.085Z","dateModified":"2026-09-13T18:53:20.352Z","description":"OpenMW-Web is a browser-based port of OpenMW, the open-source Morrowind engine, that runs the actual game engine natively in the browser without installation...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/b1abd6bcee537dc5dd36146138175a27?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/b1abd6bcee537dc5dd36146138175a27?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"XDA Developers","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"XDA Developers","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--kCg6yyAP--/f_auto,q_auto/v1774964407/logos/xda-developers?_a=BAMAMiWQ0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers"},"commentCount":2,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/you-can-now-play-the-entirety-of-morrowind-in-your-browser-because-why-not-q071uuqvb","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":27},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}],"keywords":"open-source,webassembly","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"XDA Developers","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"You can now play the entirety of Morrowind in your browser, because why not"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/you-can-now-play-the-entirety-of-morrowind-in-your-browser-because-why-not-q071uuqvb","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"I love Morrowind but this is getting silly. 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