The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition

BANGER · RPG · 2009

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 60% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$14.99BANGER

Typical seasonal cut

$5.9960% offBANGER

Cost per hourS
$0.33/hr
ReviewsS
95% of 28,811
Critics
89 players 6 higher
Genre rank
Top 1% RPG
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
46.1h
To 100%
329h 7.1x the story

Price and sales

Sales
77 on record
Typical cut
60% off
Steam low
$3.74 November 2020
Sale every
51d last October 2026
Lowest now $5.39 at Fanaticalall-time low $2.92 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
197 now
Recent reviews
91% 30 days
Cheaper than
22% of its genre
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 77 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition ($39.99, scores 66) and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR ($59.99, scores 32).

More about The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition

6 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,872 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,329 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 2,433 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.

46.1 hours to finish it, 329 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 7.1 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.33/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Replayability~277h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 46h main story
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
For context
Refunds6 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Might not play past this point, but good game. The narrative and dialogue system is very nice, and the world is super big and interesting. I played this modded with OpenMW, which is apparently better. I will say the combat system is... dated. That's my main gripe. And leveling. One unique thing is fact that you likely want to take notes as you play, rumors etc. That was cool.
SunnyRecommendedafter 9.0hAug 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is a masterpiece that all gamers should play. Its only flaw is the bugs. Even if you are a purist like I am, please use at least a basic bug fix mod. This game, even with all the patches Bethesda released throughout 2002-2003, does not function correctly. For example, the entire pickpocketing mechanic does not work and will basically always fail even if you max out the stats for it...
LutyrannusRecommendedafter 107h56 found this helpfulRead on Steam
This is in fact the best game of all time. Yep, you can become a demigod if you like and you can use the engine and some programming issues to powercreep your char. But hey - if it is fun to you - why not? Morrowind has the best atmosphere of all Elder Scrolls game. By far. Morrowind has a lot of interesting side quests - even if these are not the storylines of Oblivion. They are still enjoyable. With Tamriel...
swaggypepperRecommendedafter 603h18 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition includes Morrowind plus all of the content from the Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions. The original Mod Construction Set is not included in this package. An epic, open-ended single-player RPG, Morrowind allows you to create and play any kind of character imaginable.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 32MB Direct3D Compatible video card with 32-bit color support and DirectX 8.1, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition scores 94/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/22320/the-elder-scrolls-iii-morrowind-game-of-the-year-edition
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+6
Critics89
Players95
Metacritic critics · 28,811 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperBethesda Game Studios
PublisherBethesda Softworks
GenreRPG
Released2009
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate