The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition
BANGER · RPG · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $14.99.
- Length
- 46.1h
- Value
- $0.33/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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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.
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.
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The value story
November 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $3.74. It has been discounted 76 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 78 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).
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 3,416 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,822 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.
It came out 17 years ago and 635 were still playing it at the last check.
Players
635 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
TES3 Morrowind was released in 2002, making it 24 years old in 2026. Nonetheless, the modding community for it continues to be active and have a resurgence since the pandemic. Tamriel Rebuilt alongside Project Tamriel have provide fresh new lands and adventures in mainland Morrowind, Kingdom of Anvil, and the Reach of Skyrim. Late August 2026 is a planned release of Poison Song expansion for Tamriel Rebuilt. After...
This game has a special place in my heart. It was my first ever Elderscrolls game. I played it on my dad's pc when I was like 12 back in uhh 2009 or someshit. I played so much Morrowind I fried his pc back when I had the disc and everything. I literally loved this game so much I killed my fathers pc with it.
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.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition scores 94/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). 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-editionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 3, price as of Sep 24.
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