The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009)
BANGER · RPG · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$3.7475% offBANGER
- Cost per hourS
- $0.49/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 53,219
- Critics
- 94 players 1 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% RPG
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.74 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 30.9h
- To 100%
- 171.3h 5.5x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 80 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 May 2024
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 461 now
- Recent reviews
- 88% 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 80 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR ($59.99, scores 32) and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim ($19.99, scores 93), are both worse buys on this math.
More about The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009)
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 15 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 2,705 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
30.9 hours to finish it, 171 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.5 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
What players say
Might be one of the best games of all time, even if its garbage and it sucks. thank you todd howard I love it
2 more reviews
I can't express what's in my heart; I'm afraid I'll do justice to this masterpiece, a unique work of art in the world of RPGs. It's a complete world of nature and beauty, unparalleled in my life. I've never seen anything like it. A truly wonderful world. Thank you for this amazing game.
7.5/10, daddy Todd <3. Honestly, what an incredible game. I feel if I was to sit here and type out everything I loved about this game I could write whole novels; instead, I shall say the ONE major thing that screwed me up for about 3 or 4 hours of gameplay, that being the levelling system. I went into this game blind and treated it how I did Skyrim. Oh boy was that stupid. This game uses such a weird levelling...
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About the game
PUBLISHER UPDATE - This is the product page for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition, released in 2009. ---The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition presents one of the best RPGs of all time like never before. Step inside the most richly detailed and vibrant game-world ever created.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128 MB Direct3D compatible video card and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver, 4.6 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009) 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/22330/the-elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion-game-of-the-year-edition-2009Reviews 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.