The Elder Scrolls® Online
Fair · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair 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
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9975% offFair
- Cost per hourS
- $0.42/hr
- Reviews▼
- 81% of 162,020
- Critics
- 80 players 1 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 16% RPG
Holding it back: Monetization, DRM
Recent reviews trending down: 72% over the last 30 days against 81% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 47.9h
- To 100%
- 605.5h 12.6x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 94 on record
- Typical cut
- 67% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 March 2025
- Sale every
- 43d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 11,732 now
- Recent reviews
- 72% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 10% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 78% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Across all 94 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 67 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 16 percent. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. The nearest things to it, The Lord of the Rings Online™ (free, scores 52) and Runes of Magic (free, scores 23), are both worse buys on this math.
More about The Elder Scrolls® Online
Players rate it 81 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 72 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 9 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 4,597 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it. It carries the aggressive kind of in-app purchases, and the score already docks it for that. The sticker price is where the spending starts.
47.9 hours to finish it, 606 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 13 times the campaign.
162,020 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
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
1. This game is a gold-digger. Players without DLCs or a subscription are able to find Scryable antiquities or treasure maps that require a DLCs/subscription to actually unlock. The treasure maps can't even be sold to a shopkeeper for gold. The game floods your inventory with loot and then forces you to pay gold to increase your bag-space but subscribed users get twice the bag-space AND a crafting bag that holds all...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Went to Sheeet hard! About the 6 years mark, as soon as they lowered the bar so Limp Wristed Gimps could clear content with BS gear and builds.
With this many hours in the game, I don't think I could NOT recommend it. In it's current state it's harder to stay actively involved in what's going on in the game though. The Elder Scrolls Online has entered it's "next stage in life", which isn't the same experience that I have had, when I first started the game. The game still have roughly infinite amount of content, but with the halt on new expansions to the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Every legend starts somewhere and in The Elder Scrolls Online, it starts with you. Join millions of players in an online, fantasy RPG set in a vast living Elder Scrolls world.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 180 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Elder Scrolls® Online scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/306130/the-elder-scrolls-onlineReviews 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.