The Elder Scrolls Online
Every legend starts somewhere and in The Elder Scrolls Online, it starts with you. Write your story into a vibrant chapter of Tamriel’s distant past that takes place nearly 1,000 years before the iconic TES V…
The Elder Scrolls Online is an adventure developed by ZeniMax Online Studios, released 4 April 2014 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
What The Elder Scrolls Online is
The Elder Scrolls Online is an adventure game developed by ZeniMax Online Studios and released in 2014. It was published by Bethesda Softworks. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on HeroEngine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game is set in the Second Era, in 2E 583, during a period of time known as the Interregnum. It was a period of time known for its political instability. Daedric prince Molag Bal has taken advantage of this instability to try and pull all of Tamriel into his realm of Coldharbour. Bal is doing so by sending devices called "Dark Anchors" into Tamriel. The Fighters Guild have taken it upon themselves to remove them. The Tharn family, current rulers of Cyrodiil through Empress Regent Clivia Tharn, has made a pact with the King of Worms, who has agreed to supplement the Imperial's forces by resurrecting their soldiers. Secretly, Mannimarco is conspiring with Molag Bal, the Daedric Prince of…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO), Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the The Elder Scrolls series
The Elder Scrolls Online is the 16th of 62 entries we hold in the The Elder Scrolls series. The next entry was The Elder Scrolls Online: Imperial City in 2015. Its critic score of 70 is 7 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Game of the Year Edition at 90.
How it was received
The Elder Scrolls Online holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 71, across 374 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel® Core™ i5 2300 or AMD FX4350, 4 GB RAM and Direct X 11.0 compliant video card with 1GB RAM (NVIDIA® GeForce® 560 or AMD Radeon™ 6870). At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. It also needs around 150GB of free storage, which is a real consideration on a 512GB drive. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
The Elder Scrolls Online launched on 4 April 2014, within three weeks of Diablo III: Reaper of Souls, Infamous: Second Son, Monument Valley and Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Diablo III: Reaper of Souls, Infamous: Second Son, Monument Valley, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Elder Scrolls Online yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Screenshots
All media
Characters
All 16
Dlc
The Elder Scrolls Online: Imperial City
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The Elder Scrolls Online: Orsinium
The Elder Scrolls Online: Thieves Guild
The Elder Scrolls Online: Dark Brotherhood
The Elder Scrolls Online: Shadows of the Hist
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The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind
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The Elder Scrolls Online: Horns of the Reach
The Elder Scrolls Online: Clockwork City
The Elder Scrolls Online: Dragon Bones
78
The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset
The Elder Scrolls Online: Wolfhunter
The Elder Scrolls Online: Murkmire
The Elder Scrolls Online: Wrathstone
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The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr
The Elder Scrolls Online: Scalebreaker
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The Elder Scrolls Online: Dragonhold
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The Elder Scrolls Online: Harrowstorm
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The Elder Scrolls Online: Greymoor
The Elder Scrolls Online: Stonethorn
The Elder Scrolls Online: Markarth
The Elder Scrolls Online: Flames of Ambition
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The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood
The Elder Scrolls Online: Waking Flame
The Elder Scrolls Online: Deadlands
The Elder Scrolls Online: Ascending Tide
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The Elder Scrolls Online: High Isle
The Elder Scrolls Online: Lost Depths
The Elder Scrolls Online: Firesong
The Elder Scrolls Online: Scribes of Fate
The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom
The Elder Scrolls Online: Scions of Ithelia
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The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road
The Elder Scrolls Online: Fallen Banners
The Elder Scrolls Online: Seasons of the Worm Cult
The Elder Scrolls Online: Feast of Shadows
Expansions
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The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind
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The Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset
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The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr
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The Elder Scrolls Online: Greymoor
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The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood
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The Elder Scrolls Online: High Isle
The Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom
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The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road
Quick answers
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