The Elder Scrolls® Online

Join over 22 million players in the award-winning online multiplayer RPG and experience limitless adventure in a persistent Elder Scrolls world. Battle, craft, steal, or explore, and combine different types of equipment and abilities to create your own style of play. No game subscription required.

The Elder Scrolls® Online is a rpg, mmorpg and open world game developed by ZeniMax Online Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.
Released on May 22nd 2017 is available on Windows and MacOS in 6 languages: English, French, German, Russian, Spanish - Spain and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 150,581 reviews of which 122,858 were positive and 27,723 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Elder Scrolls® Online into these genres:

RPG MMORPG Open World Fantasy Adventure Exploration Multiplayer Singleplayer Massively Multiplayer Action Character Customization PvP PvE Lore-Rich Story Rich Choose Your Own Adventure Magic Class-Based Action RPG Atmospheric

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 64-bit
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5 2300 or AMD FX4350
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Direct X 11.0 compliant video card with 1GB RAM (NVIDIA® GeForce® 560 or AMD Radeon™ 6870)
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 150 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card

MacOS

OS: Mac® High Sierra v 10.13
Processor: Intel Core i5 processor
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: AMD Radeon
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 150 GB available space

Reviews

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Sept. 2024

Review from Oblivion / Skyrim player who does not play MMO´s it´s surprisingly good. i wasnt expecting all voices to be not only voice acted, but better than what we got for usual bethesda games. the main storyline is very epic and grandiose. the side-quests are lower stakes and entertaining. crafting seems very involved though i didnt get into it much, same with house building. phenomenal music. great to visit some places i had never seen and re-visit some old favourites such as morrowind. seems like the game can be played fine solo but it´s not difficult to find groups for the harder dungeons. the downside; you better do what i did and wait for a decent sale otherwise it´s quite expensive if you want to purchase the whole game with all the areas. that´s about it for the bad part, can´t think of anything else really.. i´m enjoying my time exploring and probably will continue to do so for quite a bit of time.

Aug. 2024

I treat the game like a big singleplayer with the occasional social interaction. Lots of lore, stories, collectibles and a beautiful environment. Not much of an end game player. Got my main geared up as good as possible for a solo player and can tackle much of the game on my own at my own pace.

July 2024

Stoped playing World of Warcraft to get away from mmos for a whille . . . Started ESO since i was bored and other releases are overpriced ea titles . . . Much better community than wow at least , much more solo friendly since most of my friends play fps mostly . If you are unsure about it just give it a try over free weekends and check it for yourself instead reading about it since we all have our own opinions and likes .

March 2024

It's a beautiful game and I've been playing it daily since 2020. There's so much to do and so little time to do it all.

March 2024

Remember the good old days when our elder scrolls experience was Morrowind,, running around a massive world with lots of things to do,, guilds to join, quest to complete and fun to be had.. Morrowind was the first non MMO I played on the computer, It was glorious I would download almost any mod I could find, and enhance the game in many eventful and exciting ways.. I never actually finished Morrowind, but I loved that game to pieces.. Then I got oblivion, unfortunately Oblivion was far too advanced for my poor computer, but I played it on Xbox 360 instead.. it was good, didn't really hold up to Morrowind but still good.. Then came Skyrim or as I like to call it The Milk Maid as Beth Milked it to death.. This was the first game that really had people wishing for a co/op mode.. Beth being the oppertunist they are saw dollar signs and created the MMO Elder Scrolls online.. The masses rejoiced.. well actually they complained because the game was pretty devoid of almost anything that made the Elder Scrolls great.. 10 years later and the game is in a far better state but still lacking in alot of ways.. The Story - Well it's an MMO, most MMO's don't really have a story, this one kinda does,, although I don't know what it is.. something about A prophet, and betrayal and Daedric princes or something... who knows.. Game play - If you've played the Elder Scrolls then you pretty much know how this game plays, do quest, steal stuff, sell stuff, buy stuff, make stuff... etc etc etc.. Funtimes to be had by almost all.. Pro's - Hours and hours and hours of gameplay.. Huge game, compared to The Elder Scroll games we're used too. Decent substitute until Elder Scrolls 6 comes out Con's not really as fun as a core elder scrolls game/ Even with 10 years in the can, the game still feels empty Only 25 quest at a time (with thousands of quest in the game, 25 is too few. you'll often find yourself with a full quest journal and frustration will ensue) Inventory issues if you aren't sub scribed to ESO+ Recommendation - If you've never played TESO before, now might be as good a time as any,, if you buy the newest expansion you get access to all the previous releases, which will add potentially thousands of hours of gameplay.. The game really has alot of content, but even with all that content eventually the game starts to feel like it Drags.. with leveled enemies, you never really feel overpowered and even at max level you can die to some random creature you were killing with ease earlier in the game.. If you're a fan of MMO's then this game will be a good addition to your game playing,, while it's more like a solo MMO, it does have some group content, which I can't really comment on, and I hear it might have raids, but I have zero experience in this game with raids or more then group content.. I'd recommend buying the newest expansion which at the time of this review was Gold Road.. I'd also ask Beth to increase the quest journal size another 10 quest or so.. it's really needed after 10 years..

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19.99€

8.1

122,858

27,723

Online players

11,805

Developer

ZeniMax Online Studios

Publisher

Bethesda Softworks

Release 22 May 2017

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