The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
BANGER · RPG · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99. Price from Oct 19.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.57/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 317,820
- Critics
- 94 players 1 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% RPG
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 35.3h
- To 100%
- 240.3h 6.8x the story
- Achievements
- 75
Price and sales
- Sales
- 20 on record
- Typical cut
- 66% off
- Steam low
- $4.99 June 2014
- Sale every
- 49d last November 2016
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,603 now
- Recent reviews
- 91% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 10% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
89% start to 5% 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
June 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. It has been discounted 20 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 66 percent, about 7 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. 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 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition ($39.99, scores 66).
More about The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2023 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 5,133 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 35.3 hours; clearing it takes 240, which is 6.8 times the campaign.
317,820 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Buy now or wait
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
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What players say
I have been playing a long time. 6643 hours. I just keep restarting new characters every so often. I have never finished this game entirely.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Oldy but a goody... Sad they hide the DLC for this to force people to buy the Special Edition
Game is excellent if Bethesda would just leave it alone! Constant updates that mess up current game being played. Extensive time needed to get the game working again. Bethesda needs to leave well enough alone!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512 MB of RAM, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. Price last read Oct 19. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/72850/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrimReviews 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 3, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.