The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion cost to play

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is a single-player open-world role-playing game from Bethesda Game Studios, published by Bethesda Softworks. It first came out in 2006. The Game of the Year Edition came to Steam on 16 June 2009 and is sold at a one-off price. It ranks #141 in our best games of all time ranking.

How it plays

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is a single-player role-playing game played in the first person. The Game of the Year Edition sold on Steam includes the Knights of the Nine and Shivering Isles expansions.

Bethesda describes the game as freeform: the player can follow the main quest at their own pace or explore the large world and find their own challenges. Characters are created from scratch, from a noble warrior to a sinister assassin or a wise sorcerer, and both combat and magic are handled in the first person.

Non-player characters run on the Radiant AI system, which gives them full daily schedules: they eat, sleep, work towards their own goals and make choices based on the world around them. Shivering Isles adds a new land made in the image of Sheogorath, split between Mania and Dementia, with new enemies such as Flesh Atronachs and Grummites. Knights of the Nine adds a quest line about restoring a long-disbanded order.

What it costs

On Steam UK the Game of the Year Edition costs £12.99 and the Game of the Year Deluxe package costs £15.99. The Xbox store sells the same Game of the Year Edition for PC at £12.99. Steam shows one DLC item for the game.

A 2025 remaster, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, is sold separately (Nintendo UK lists it for Nintendo Switch 2, for example). This page covers the original game only.

Players

The 30-day peak on Steam Charts was 715 concurrent players, read on 21 October 2026. The all-time peak for this Steam version is 5,069. Players on Xbox, PlayStation and other stores aren't counted.

Age rating

The Game of the Year Edition is rated PEGI 16 for strong violence on the Xbox UK store. Steam's store data gives ESRB M, listing blood and gore, language, sexual themes, use of alcohol and violence.

How we checked

Prices are the Steam UK and Xbox UK listings, read on 21 October 2026, at standard price. Player figures are from Steam Charts on the same day. We could not read pegi.info, so the PEGI rating is taken from the Xbox UK store page. The gameplay description is based on the publisher's Steam store page.

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