Summary
Yesterday, after three years of leaks and rumors that ramped up over the last few months, Bethesdaofficially revealedand releasedThe Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remaster.
More than a simple remaster, though, Virtuous overhauled the game’s visuals, added new quests,new voice lines, a bunch of quality-of-life changes, andintroduced character originsto the almost 20-year-old title.
This effort doesn’t seem to have been in vain either, as combined with the community’s thirst for more Elder Scrolls, the Oblivion Remaster has had the second-biggest single-player launch of 2025 so far, at least onSteam.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Gets Off To A Stellar Start On Steam
Mere hours after the Oblivion remaster launched, the game rushed to the highest of first-day highs on Steam with a peak of 182,298 players jumping into the game at the same time, according toSteamDB. This is the second-highest peak of any single-player game that has been released this year, behindKingdom Come: Deliverance 2’s256,206.
Notably, though, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 didn’t peak until the weekend, reaching its highs five days after the game launched. On launch day, Warhorse Studios' RPG managed a peak of 159,351, meaning if the Oblivion remaster continues on the same trajectory, itshouldbeat KCD2 on Sunday evening. Not bad for a 20-year-old game.
There are a handful of multiplayer games that have, at least at this point, outdone the Oblivion remaster.Monster Hunter Wildshas had the biggest launch of the year, and will take some beating, peaking at almost 1.4 million players (the fifth-highest peak of any game on Steam, ever), but other games likeSplit Fictionand indie darlingSchedule 1have, so far, reached higher heights.
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remaster also still has a little way to go if it plans to beatSkyrim’speak, with the oft-memed title hitting 287,411 players 13 years ago. With the adoption rate of the Oblivion remaster, however, it would be no major surprise to see it surpass its successor at the weekend.
