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The Elder Scrolls® Online

Every legend starts somewhere and in The Elder Scrolls Online, it starts with you. Join millions of players in an online, fantasy RPG set in a vast living Elder Scrolls world.

Developer
ZeniMax Online Studios
Publisher
Bethesda Softworks
Franchise
The Elder Scrolls
Release date
May 22, 2017
Store page updated
Sep 3, 2026
Price
$19.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

60.7/ 100

Based on 393 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🙂 Mostly Positive 77% of 351
All time 😄 Very Positive 81% of 161,674
“addictive game, highly recommended, 19400 hours played”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
-0.20
Progression -0.42

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Story & World
+2.55
World +3.15
“Tamriel world is immersive and never gets old to explore” (49)

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+1.16
Volume +3.61
“sheer amount of high-quality real content to explore” (38)

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+2.11
Visuals +1.68

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
+1.81
Playing together +1.73

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
-3.13
Monetization -2.76
“expensive subscription plus expansions plus 30 dollar season pass for old free rewards” (92)

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
-2.58
Developer support -1.66
“support team ignored explanation and issued template ban for private criticism” (17)

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update DLC
50%60%70%80%90%100%
Jul 2014Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 344 reviews, peak 21/day
02550
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 392 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English48%
  • Russian12%
  • Portuguese9%
  • Spanish6%
  • Chinese6%
  • German5%
  • Other13%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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