The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
Fair · RPG · 2016
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
$39.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$9.9975% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.54/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 382,562
- Critics
- 74 players 18 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 7% RPG
Holding it back: Monetization, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 25.9h
- To 100%
- 203.6h 7.9x the story
- Achievements
- 75
Price and sales
- Sales
- 73 on record
- Typical cut
- 67% off
- Steam low
- $3.99 January 2025
- Sale every
- 45d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 17,790 now
- Recent reviews
- 92% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
72% start to 3% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
73 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 67 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim ($19.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR ($59.99, scores 32).
More about The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
74 from critics against 92 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2026 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,872 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,203 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 6,812 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic, currency); the score docks it lightly for that.
The main story runs 25.9 hours. Doing everything runs 204, 7.9 times as long.
The rating rests on 382,562 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
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
After playing 311 hours of playing, in a pursuit of getting 100% Steam Achievements. Here is my take, lets start with the PROs.... 1.Voice Acting The voice acting from all of the characters, is really well thought out. Some are funny, some are annoying, some are thought provoking. All in all, the team really show the efforts in putting in the absurd amount of hours in perfecting the voice acting for all of the...
2 more reviews
i have been playing this game over 3 consoles and i have bought it at least 7 times and yet i got it one more time. 10/10 game
**The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition Review** Skyrim is more than just a game; it's a world where every journey becomes a story of its own. From exploring ancient Nordic ruins and fighting dragons to joining guilds, mastering magic, and making choices that shape your adventure, there's always something new waiting around the corner. The atmosphere, soundtrack, world design, and freedom of exploration are...
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About the game
Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 470 1GB /AMD HD 7870 2GB, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition scores 66/100 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/489830/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-special-editionReviews 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 Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.