The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
Skip · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 32, under the fair line, at $59.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.93/hr
- Reviews▼
- 75% of 12,409
- Critics
- 81 players 6 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 45% RPG
Holding it back: Refunds, Cost per hour
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 66% over the last 30 days against 75% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 20.5h
- To 100%
- 171.3h 8.4x the story
- Achievements
- 75
Price and sales
- Sales
- 55 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $14.99 June 2021
- Sale every
- 47d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 214 now
- Recent reviews
- 66% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 56% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
54% start to <1% 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
It has been discounted 55 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 45 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition ($39.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered ($49.99, scores 29).
More about The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
Players rate it 75 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 66 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 37 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to November 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,872 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 192 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 28 percent of the 1,937 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
20.5 hours to finish it, 171 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 8.4 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
Cannot be played without a few hours of in depth modding. Worth every minute, best game ever made.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Even on my old computer with a budget GTX 1050 TI card and Oculus 2 it's breathtakingly scenic and immersive, oftentimes I just enjoy the scenery, maybe go for a slow jog in place, no fancy treadmill just simulate it while pushing the forward joystick...the game doesn't have to be just about killing monster and hustling through quests or collecting resources, that's what I like about it, there are many paths you can...
First off, I'm using the Steam Frame. The game is pretty old, and the default vanilla Skyrim doesn't look good. In VR, everything looks worse, so SkyrimVR looks like my left foot. That's fine, it's old. What is not fine is that I cannot even play vanilla SkyrimVR because the virtual keyboard doesn't open when you want to create a character. I cannot play the game because I can't give my character a name. I've spent...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
A true, full-length open-world game for VR has arrived from Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim VR reimagines the complete epic fantasy masterpiece with an unparalleled sense of scale, depth, and immersion. Skyrim VR also includes all official add-ons.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 / AMD RX 480 8GB or better, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR scores 32/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/611670/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-vrReviews 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.