The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition Deluxe (2009)
BANGER · Other · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 30.9h
- Value
- $0.65/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128 MB Direct3D compatible video card and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver, 4.6 GB of storage. Windows only.
PUBLISHER UPDATE - This is the product page for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Deluxe Edition, released in 2009.---The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition presents one of the best RPGs of all time like never before. Step inside the most richly detailed and vibrant game-world ever created.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.74. That was February 2021. 77 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR ($59.99, scores 32) and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim ($19.99, scores 93).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 15 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 2,705 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 30.9 hours. Doing everything runs 171, 5.5 times as long.
What players say
Thought process Thought process Here's your full ghoulish rundown for the original Oblivion GOTY Edition - the 2006 classic, not the 2025 remaster you already have a review for: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition - RECOMMENDED This is the original. The real, unremastered, gloriously janky 2006 corpse - and if the shiny Unreal Engine 5 resurrection isn't your poison, the old ghost is still down...
7.5/10, daddy Todd <3. Honestly, what an incredible game. I feel if I was to sit here and type out everything I loved about this game I could write whole novels; instead, I shall say the ONE major thing that screwed me up for about 3 or 4 hours of gameplay, that being the levelling system. I went into this game blind and treated it how I did Skyrim. Oh boy was that stupid. This game uses such a weird levelling...
It's a bit hard to get running properly sometimes due to it's age, but it's definitely worth it.
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 IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition Deluxe (2009) scores 94/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/900883/the-elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion-game-of-the-year-edition-deluxe-2009The 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 2, price as of Sep 24.
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