The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Love this game and almost everything about it. Now I Steam I have to repurchase it even though I have over 1200 hours logged in it on Steam thanks to Bethesda. Unfortunately I also have the Special Edition Skyrim with many new adventures but just as many glitches. I want to play, but do I want to be locked into a building after completing the adventure or to buy another Skyrim. Confused and unhappy. Would I recommend this game, can't decide. I used to love it.

Skyrim is quite a fun game, and is also moddable, if that's how you like to play it. 100% recommend it to anyone who likes anything fantasy or D&D related. You WILL love this game.

(Around 400 hours, excluding AFK, at time of review.)

This review is for Skyrim, with DawnGuard, DragonBorn and HearthFire DLCs; but NOT Special Edition (which, it is my understanding, disables the huge collection of previous private mods).

Easy 9+ out of 10. Extremely immersive and enjoyable game!

Satisfying exploration and combat in any of the broad areas of melee, ranged, magic, or stealth; and many mixes of these. Lots of surprises around almost every corner of the very large, variegated, and beautiful game world. Quests are quite varied and, except for the relatively few in the main quest line, are all optional. The game can be finished by a normal player in maybe 30 hours; or one can meander their way to the finish in 300.

Extremely open-world game, with an extensive modding community. Many ways to play, which leads to a very high replay value.

This is the only game I know where you can shout a troll off of a mountain. Also, we might be getting GTA 6 before we get The Elder Scrolls 6.

As good as it gets. I've played hundreds of hours on this game, burned out, then played hundreds more.

I've played this game once, twice, but never had the opportunity to dive down the rabbit hole. They say "the third time is a charm", oh boy... This game ruined my life lollol, for better or worse I certainly don't know, iykyk. Massive game, amazing story and gameplay, I recommend it to everyone who loves a classic game, exploring, modding and improving your character, with non-linear gameplay/missions (if you can call it that). Right now I'm playing Oblivion, send help lmao.

If you like great scenery and exploring plus RPG. This is great

I bought this game when it came out on ps3 in 2011, super fun fantasy RPG game where you get to fight dragons. Coming back to 100% this game and the special edition <3

Solid, engrossing game- think Legend of Zelda on steroids. Warning- very very easy to get off task in a major way and not get back to the main quest for awhile. Sunk close to 150 hours into it, would absolutely recommend, especially if it's your first Elder Scrolls experience.

Dragons, magic and bandits. Love that your able to do whatever you like in this game and either do the story line or just become a mercenary by your lonesome. Highly recommend this game.

Great game. Can come back to it after years and enjoy a new playthrough.

One of the greatest fantasy RPG adventure games which captured the heart of an entire generation of video game players.

Started as a humble adventurer.
Accidentally stole a fork.
Got launched into orbit by a giant.
Shouted a dragon off a mountain.
Became the leader of every guild, but still a lowly fetch quest peasant.
Modded until my PC cried.
Would do it all again.

11/10, still haven't finished the main quest.

The Best There Is, The Best There Was, The Best There Ever Will Be...

Love this world and story line, but I really wish Bethesda would take the best of the best mods and incorporate it in a new game, built from the ground up with modern graphics in mind.

Have many thousands of hours when I played this on the PS3 when it first came out. Incredible memories from this game.

its a pretty good game tbh, thanks god howard

Very boring game. Whether waiting for the long cart ride to end, or easily killing dragon after dragon with a new character, it is not worth playing. Even if it were free, it is not worth your time.

There are far more bug fixes on pc than ps3. I am once again addicted to this game. But now I think I hear a word wall faintly in the distance every time I run the bath and I see loading screens every time I blink. I hardly eat or sleep. And now I write a review at 1 in the morning not because I quit the game, but because the game crashed.

TLDR. help.

2025, Still worth to play. Even Though using low-spec laptop.

It took me more than 10 years to finally beat the main quest. This game is old. I'm old.

Damn.

Only with mod's, and test them before you play seriously or you will break you're game QQ

Exquisite game. Simply exquisite. If you haven't played it, you are TRULY missing out and if you don't have FOMO, you should.

This is one of those games that i had fun in a single player game RPG, i find there's a lot of content and great environment.

And hey! Mod support!

Its Skyrim, its a broken mess but its a fun broken mess

Lot to explore, great story lines

How are they still selling this title? It's unplayable. Soooo many bugs. Everything is constantly glitching, and it's been that way for years.

Every time I've tried to play this game, I will eventually enter a crash loop or a softlock. No matter my mod setup (with or without mods), no matter what bugfixes, the shit just crashes. It's a cool game while you're able to play it, but I've never been able to finish this game due to the bugginess.

Skyrim is one of the very few RPGs that I enjoyed leveling in. It's better than Morrowind and Oblivion put together. The world is large but small on the grand scale of other open-world games. Still a great game nonetheless with a lot of replay-ability, I have more hours in other versions and VR.

I loved the fact that there were so many branching possibilities and that, even without you trying, you could be turned into a vampire. Fascinating stuff.

Bethesda has to be up there as one of the most creatively bankrupt companies to ever exist. Even to this day, they cling to their 5 minutes of fame generated through Skyrim. Looking back at their self-proclaimed magnum opus, it's nothing to write home about. Half the game takes place in caves, and the other half in your inventory. That's not an exaggeration. It's essentially Tomb Raider for the mentally challenged. The leveling system is a complete joke, you can easily exploit the hell out of it which is something I even picked up on when I was a kid. It shows how incompetent the developers behind this game were when a child can play your code like a fiddle. Todd, this game is shit, stop being proud of it.

I mean, do I even need to say anything? It's Skyrim. Sure, it's a buggy mess at times, but I challenge you to find another game that can stay entertaining and loved for over a decade in the same way this game has. Anything it lacks, the modding community is there to help with. Just have fun

Ain't no one reading this, but bruh ...it's Skyrim.
If you ain't played it, frankly I don't know what you been doing with your life.

A very good rpg game, tons of content, and customization options. The ui is pretty clear, always minimal, and not cluttered. The story is okay, I don't remember much of it. Please steal from the stores after you put a bucket over someone's head. The modding scene is crazy, so crazy, at some point it was paid. Finish the base game before playing modded.

117 hours on steam, and probably close to 4000 on other versions. Skyrim is a must play for anybody, and I mean ANYBODY. You can do, and be, anything you want to be. I play pure vanilla, though the mods available for this game are endless. I've been playing this game for close to 10 years, and I'm still discovering new dungeons, NPC interactions, and gameplay mechanics.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☑ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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"It just Works." god what more can you really say... Truly a revelation, a bolt from the heavens. In all realness the games graphics still hold up well, the vanilla is fun even better with DLC and arguably one of the greatest games with mods.

The best. Better than the rest. Well actually Oblivion and Morrowind are quite amazing, but this one always has a special place in your heart from the moment you are in the carriage on the way to be executed.

This game dominated my life for a long time and still does in a large way. I have owned this game on every single console, and have owned every single type. I have 161 hours on PC and I do not even want to check other systems. This is single highhandedly one of the greatest games I have every played, and despite my many hundreds of hours playing I still discover new things almost every time I click play. I can not recommend this game more.

The only negative I believe is that this game has sponsored a relaxed mindset for the developers Bethesda. It has been 6 years since the trailer for the Elder Scrolls 6, we need more information and a release date.

An immersive single player RPG set in an expansive and detailed world. Great game for roaming around and discovering adventures in every corner of the realm. Very replayable over a number of playthroughs. Option to also have a companion follower. Can still be a bit buggy at times but overall an excellent game and has aged well.

Very good game. The word of Skyrim is very immersive and great to explore. Playing in this game gives a lots of fun.

Skyrim is one of the greatest games ever created, mods make the experience even better.

One of the best games ever. If you think it is too easy, you can try legendary difficulty with self enforced permadeath.

I usually don’t like first-person games, but Skyrim is the exception. It’s so much fun running around as a stealth archer that I actually enjoy it.

Definitely one of the best open-world games out there.

Between all the copies I own, I prob have over 600 hours on this game. Love it clearly, but still waiting on Elder Scrolls VI ;)

just a beautiful game - its not perfect but it is captivating in a way only RDR2 comes close to from what i have played.

Excellent game, very entertaining and engaging storyline.

There is no better game 11/10
over 800 hours and there is still more to be played

SkyUI is the best reason for this version but a lot of the mods require the DLC's so it's Bethesda's loss that I can't purchase them anymore. Why in the hell does the other version I have not have skyUI? It sucks.

The game is obviously amazing, one of the last "great games", but scummy bethesda removed all dlc from the store for the vanilla version to force players to buy the "special edition".