The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset

For the first time in history, the long-closed borders of Summerset are open to foreigners by decree of Queen Ayrenn. But darkness looms over the ancestral home of the High Elves, and whispers stir of Daedric…

78 21 May 2018

Role-playing (RPG) Fantasy Open world

The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset is a role-playing (rpg) developed by ZeniMax Online Studios, released 21 May 2018 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset is

The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by ZeniMax Online Studios and released in 2018. It was published by Bethesda Softworks. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on HeroEngine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

For the first time in history, the long-closed borders of Summerset are open to foreigners by decree of Queen Ayrenn. But darkness looms over the ancestral home of the High Elves, and whispers stir of Daedric followers organizing in the shadows. Rally your allies, brave champions. Summerset awaits. Explore an all-new zone packed with adventure. Join the mysterious Psijic Order and gain powerful new abilities. Reunite with old friends, forge new alliances, and work together to unravel a conspiracy that threatens Tamriel's very existence.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy and open world.

Where it sits in the The Elder Scrolls series

The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset is the 33rd of 62 entries we hold in the The Elder Scrolls series. The next entry was The Elder Scrolls Online: Wolfhunter in 2018. Its critic score of 78 is almost exactly the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Game of the Year Edition at 90.

See all 62 The Elder Scrolls games in release order →

How it was received

The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points above the year average.

What it launched against

The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset launched on 21 May 2018, within three weeks of Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered and Vampyr. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Detroit: Become Human, Detroit: Become Human, Dark Souls: Remastered, Vampyr.

Cheats and codes

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