The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
Skip · RPG · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $49.99.
- Length
- 17.5h
- Value
- $2.86/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 48% over the last 30 days against 75% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, AMD Radeon RX 5700, NVIDIA GeForce 1070 Ti, 125 GB of storage. Windows only.
Explore Cyrodiil like never before with stunning new visuals and refined gameplay in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion™ Remastered.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
November 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $33.49. Its cuts run 20 percent off as a rule. There have been 11 in the 17 months tracked, about 5 weeks apart. 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 5 weeks.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009) ($14.99, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats Starfield ($49.99, scores 3).
Players rate it 75 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 48 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 19 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 6,225 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (unlock); the score docks it lightly for that.
17.5 hours to finish it, 94 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.3 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
90% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
14.4K 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
Absolutely non-optimized piece of crap! Crashes on character creation for me even through I have a high end PC lol!
An unoptimized abandoned Frankenstein of a remaster. Horrible rubber-banding and stuttering in the open world that only gets worse the longer you play. This is caused by a severe memory leak and asset-steaming hitch. They dug up my favorite game of all time just for a quick cash grab. I held off doing this review in hopes they would fix it, but this is modern Bethesda were talking about.
Game is fun and I personally think it looks great. However I could never recommend this game to anyone it does not matter what hardware you have this game runs like utter garbage.
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered scores 29/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2623190/the-elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion-remasteredThe 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 Sep 13, price as of Sep 23.
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