Morrowind

In my search for non-competitive solitary games I was pointed to Morrowind by The Younger Son. I had tried Journey, but you do have to defeat an enemy to make it all the way through the game. I had tried Walden: a Game, but you have to complete set tasks within a set time period or all the color goes out of the world. I am particularly interested in a game where you can wander aimlessly without fulfilling set goals or performing timed tasks. The Younger Son tells me there are enemies in Morrowind but that you can avoid them and that there are tasks to do but that you don't have to do them and that you can wander through the environment as you wish.

Here's the game's trailer:

I have fond memories wash over me when I hear the music and voices and see the graphics in this game, because I remember when the game first came out and my son discovered it in 2002. I enjoyed watching him play. As I picked a name and a character and was given my first task I remembered my son doing those same things, but I'm ignoring the task. He always played the game as it's supposed to be played, following the directions and meeting all the challenges, so I've never seen the game explored in the way I intend to do.

I found some images online at Jason's Flickr account labeled for non-commercial re-use:

We'll see as I wander if this game will be enjoyable for me. Maybe what I want doesn't really exist in the gaming world and what I need to do is figure out how Second Life works.