The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR
Skip · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $59.99.
- Length
- 21h
- Value
- $2.86/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
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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.
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.
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
June 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $14.99. It has been discounted 54 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 12 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 47 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).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 36 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,416 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 202 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 1,923 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
21 hours to finish it, 171 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 8.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
54% start to <1% 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
241 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
A very, very, very cautious recommendation. Do not buy this at full price if you can avoid it. It is functional, mostly. A much better experience modded, for sure. Experiencing the world of Skyrim in VR, even in vanilla form, does still feel magical despite the many issues plaguing it. Certainly a better vanilla experience than Fallout 4 (the bar is in hell).
This game with the FUS overhaul is amazing. With mods it's god tier without it's still playable.
Install Wabbajack, install modlist and you will get the best VR game of all time till now. Install AI features and now Skyrim is your second home.
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.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR scores 32/100 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/611670/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-vrThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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