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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is a single player open world role playing game with a fantasy theme. It was developed by Bethesda Game Studios and was released on April 22, 2025. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Discover The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered for PlayStation 5 at the official PlayStation website. Experience one of the most-acclaimed RPGs of all time, now with all-new visuals and refined gameplay.

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79%
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graphics2.9k positive mentions
optimization2.8k negative mentions
  • The remaster offers significantly improved and stunning visuals with Unreal Engine 5, breathing new life into Cyrodiil while maintaining the original’s charm.
  • The game features a compelling and richly crafted main quest and faction storylines, particularly the Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild, with high replayability due to diverse character builds and playstyles.
  • The atmospheric world, enhanced by Jeremy Soule's remastered iconic soundtrack and immersive sound design, creates a deeply nostalgic and emotional experience for both new and returning players.
  • Severe performance and optimization issues cause frequent stuttering, crashes, and low frame rates even on high-end PCs, often requiring extensive tweaking and mods for a playable experience.
  • The game retains many persistent bugs and quest-breaking issues, including crashes during main and faction quests, forcing reliance on workarounds like console commands that hinder immersion.
  • Limited mod support, repetitive quest design with frequent fetch and escort quests, dated gameplay mechanics, and inconsistent character design detract from overall enjoyment and replay value.
  • optimization
    8,499 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Oblivion Remastered suffers from severe performance and optimization issues, particularly in outdoor/open-world areas, causing frequent stuttering, frame drops, and crashes even on high-end PCs. Despite respectable visuals and improvements over the original, the game remains poorly optimized with minimal post-launch fixes, making mods and tweaks necessary for a playable experience; many players advise waiting for significant performance patches before purchasing.

    • “Despite the mixed reviews upon this game due to its optimization issues, personally I have finished this game along with its DLC expansions without crashes.”
    • “With my config I would expect better performance.”
    • “I had to spend hours tweaking and modding, and I had to go into the files and delete the shader cache to fix most of the crashes and get 50-100 fps in this game at 1440p even after the recent performance updates.”
    • “If you have less than 32 GB of RAM, don't even bother playing this game; it's extremely unoptimized.”
    • “This game is a horribly optimized dumpster fire; I have tried absolutely everything to fix it and yet I'm still getting 7 FPS and 80-500 ms frame times. I have a 9070xt and a R9 9950x3d and I can't even run this game on minimum settings with FSR and frame gen on. It looked great for the first couple of sessions with 60-80 FPS average and no stuttering, even in the open world, but suddenly it became unplayable yesterday no matter what I did to settings, even after installing a mod that did absolutely nothing for performance. Would not recommend buying unless they fix the optimization problems.”
    • “After buying this game I've had nothing but issues with it from random crashing, AMD fidelity-related CTDs, deleting saves when trying to load saves, performance and texture issues, quests breaking, magic effects not disappearing, my weapon glitching through my hand, and crashing on startup.”
  • graphics
    8,489 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The remaster of Oblivion offers a significant graphical upgrade using Unreal Engine 5, delivering stunning, immersive visuals that revitalize the game world and character models while maintaining the original’s charm. However, the enhanced graphics come with steep hardware demands and notable performance issues, including frequent stutters and crashes even on high-end PCs. While the upgrade is appreciated by fans and new players seeking modern aesthetics, it largely preserves the original gameplay and bugs, making it feel more like a graphical facelift than a full remake.

    • “Oblivion remastered is a stunning revival of a classic RPG masterpiece with gorgeous visuals that breathe new life into Cyrodiil while keeping the janky charm intact.”
    • “The graphics overhaul doesn’t just polish the experience, it elevates it to an entirely new level.”
    • “The updated graphics, lighting, and textures are beautiful and breathe new life into Cyrodiil.”
    • “Despite the graphical bugs and the awful running animation, it's still an extremely fun game.”
    • “The remaster's ultra realistic graphics make the NPC behavior look out of place, and everything has a piss filter on it.”
    • “But this game runs so incredibly poor, even on the lowest setting the visuals lag and I have never experienced screen tear like this before, no matter what settings I put in.”
  • story
    4,441 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The remastered game's story remains largely faithful to the original, featuring a compelling main quest and richly crafted faction quests—particularly the Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild—that are often regarded as some of the best in the series. While the narrative is engaging with memorable characters and numerous side quests adding depth and variety, many players find the main quest relatively short and some faction storylines inconsistent in pacing. However, persistent quest-breaking bugs and technical issues sometimes hinder progress and immersion, although the overall storytelling and quest design retain their classic charm and depth.

    • “The main quest is one of the best in the series, but still just a backdrop to a greater play.”
    • “The quest design is still top-tier, especially the guild storylines like the dark brotherhood and thieves guild.”
    • “The story remains one of the game’s strongest elements, centred around a high-stakes quest to close the gates of oblivion and prevent a demonic invasion.”
    • “Many quests bug out and require console commands or reloading older saves to continue, with no fixes from the developers even after 20 years. This includes main storyline quests and faction questlines like the mages guild, thieves guild, and dark brotherhood, making progression often impossible without workarounds.”
    • “The game suffers from constant crashes during main story and guild quests, frequent quest-breaking bugs like missing NPCs or disabled quest triggers, and quest reward scaling issues where doing quests too early results in underwhelming rewards. These issues harm immersion and force reliance on external guides or console commands, which disable achievements.”
    • “Quest design feels repetitive and dated, with an over-reliance on tedious fetch quests, slow escort missions, and copy-paste dungeon layouts. Many quests lack meaningful choices or impact, and the main story is considered short and underwhelming. Combined with bugs and poor optimization, the quest experience can become frustrating and monotonous.”
  • gameplay
    3,258 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay of Oblivion Remastered remains largely faithful to the original 2006 version, preserving its classic RPG mechanics, quests, and open-world exploration while incorporating subtle quality-of-life improvements such as a revamped leveling system, added sprinting, smoother combat, and updated animations. Though these tweaks modernize the experience and make gameplay more accessible and enjoyable, the core mechanics still feel dated compared to contemporary RPGs, with some players noting clunky combat, repetitive elements, and persistent bugs. Performance issues and occasional crashes also impact the overall gameplay experience, but for fans and newcomers open to older gameplay styles, the remaster provides a nostalgic yet refreshed journey through Cyrodiil.

    • “Somewhere in-between a remaster and a remake is where this falls, keeping the same core engine and mechanics as the original while overhauling the graphics and gameplay systems to make it more playable for modern times.”
    • “The remaster uses a hybrid engine approach - retaining the original Gamebryo engine for gameplay systems (quests, AI, and mechanics) while utilizing Unreal Engine 5 for visuals, lighting, and animation.”
    • “The gameplay and mechanics are left wonderfully intact, with the few gameplay changes making the game more enjoyable, including a reworked leveling system that fixes major issues in the original.”
    • “The combat system lacks consideration; while spells are powerful, combat with only swords and bows is bad enough to give up. There's hardly any mechanics designed for them both.”
    • “Constant lagging and crashing is a huge interference with the overall gameplay and experience.”
    • “The gameplay is simultaneously complex and multifaceted; you can build your character in so many ways that you could write a book about every approach and its most-effective build. But for me, broken hitboxes, outdated mechanics, bugs, and that brown/yellow “piss filter” completely break enjoyment.”
  • stability
    2,157 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The remaster of Oblivion retains the original's extensive bugs, glitches, and quest-breaking issues, resulting in a highly unstable and often frustrating experience. Despite significantly improved visuals, performance suffers from frequent crashes, freezes, stutters, and poor optimization, even on high-end PCs. While some players enjoy the nostalgic charm of the persistent bugs, others find the game nearly unplayable without extensive troubleshooting and mods.

    • “For the first 3 days there were no glitches or bugs apart from occasional stutter.”
    • “Running the game with XeSS (upscaling fps) makes it run tolerable in the open world (40-60fps) and runs great indoors, dungeons, and small towns (or sections of a town like the Imperial City) without crashes.”
    • “The game runs great with some minor settings tweaks and the updated models look fantastic.”
    • “It is simply an extremely buggy mess of a 4k upscale and UI overhaul.”
    • “It is virtually impossible to play through it without running into major, game-breaking bugs and glitches.”
    • “On top of that, this remaster introduced a lot of new bugs and graphical glitches: weird reflections in water that conflict with lumen reflections and space occlusion, also weapon and tree shadows mirroring in the water, occasional flickering, enemies turning invisible, random flashes of light, blue flashes out of nowhere… yeah, it’s a buggy mess.”
  • music
    699 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The music in the remastered version of Oblivion is widely praised for preserving the original iconic and nostalgic soundtrack by Jeremy Soule, which many consider a masterpiece and central to the game's atmosphere. The remaster preserves the classic themes, enhanced with richer orchestration and improved ambient sounds that deeply immerse players, evoking strong emotional and nostalgic responses. While some note a desire for more varied or dynamic tracks, the music is universally regarded as one of the best game soundtracks ever, significantly enhancing the overall experience.

    • “Jeremy Soule's legendary soundtrack has been remastered beautifully, and the ambient sound design is richer than ever.”
    • “The moment Jeremy Soule's music starts playing, you’re no longer in your room — you’re already standing in Cyrodiil, with its misty mornings, golden fields, ancient Ayleid ruins and that quiet sense of adventure humming in the air.”
    • “The soundtrack, meticulously remastered, envelops the player in a richly atmospheric soundscape that perfectly complements the game’s epic scope.”
    • “The soundtrack is untouched and naturally carries all that blissful vibes it always has carried but now with better visuals than you could ever mod out of the original Oblivion.”
    • “The stuttering is too distracting, like a music CD that keeps skipping, it's awful.”
    • “Every single track from the combat, to the ambient, to the exploration-based music is ingrained in my mind, but the action music during battles just changes merrily, interrupting one song mid-stream and starting the next, which can be jarring.”
  • humor
    621 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The humor in this game is a defining and beloved aspect, blending intentional wit, quirky characters, and a rich array of unexpected, often hilarious bugs and glitches that enhance its charm. While some players find the comedic elements endearing and nostalgic, others note that certain attempts at humor feel forced or jarring. Overall, the game's trademark awkward animations, amusing NPC interactions, and memorable voice acting contribute to a unique, sometimes unintentional but consistently entertaining experience.

    • “The world feels alive, the NPCs are unintentionally hilarious, and the classic funny glitches from the original are still here in the best way.”
    • “A lot of the funny business that made the original so rich and enjoyable is still there with the remaster, with some new funny business on top.”
    • “The charm, the atmosphere, the hilarious NPC dialogue—it's all here, just as I remember it.”
    • “They are not funny.”
    • “If you love fetch quests and unfunny bugs that make you reload a quest or have a person not speak to you, this is the game for you :)”
    • “Game was not properly tested. It has many performance problems, not just the 'funny' NPC bugs as advertised. There are real game and immersion-breaking issues, including invincible NPCs, zero skill progression, crashes, ghosting, and stutters.”
  • atmosphere
    273 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The atmosphere of Oblivion, both in its original form and remastered version, is widely praised for its immersive world-building, rich lore, distinctive charm, and captivating soundtrack, creating a deeply atmospheric and nostalgic experience. The remaster enhances this with modernized visuals, lighting, and sound design that preserve the game's essence while adding freshness, though some note changes in color palette and certain atmospheric details can feel less vibrant or slightly altered. Overall, the game’s atmosphere remains a standout feature, evoking a strong sense of fantasy and adventure that continues to engage players.

    • “The atmosphere is unmatched: every city has its own spirit, every forest feels like it hides something ancient, and every journey becomes a memory.”
    • “The exceptional characterization, especially the voice acting, ambient sound effects, and atmospheric music, truly bring the world of Cyrodiil so much to life it's incredible.”
    • “Jeremy Soule’s score is as sweeping and captivating as ever, and the world’s atmospheric lighting and weather effects can genuinely take your breath away.”
    • “The original atmosphere is just… gone.”
    • “The game does not capture the spark that the old Oblivion had, the atmosphere, the vibrant colours and the goofy appearance it all presented; it is like opening an old book you really enjoyed and it still brings back the familiar feeling.”
    • “The atmosphere is off, the performance is poor, and the artistic direction feels like a downgrade.”
  • grinding
    221 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Grinding in this game is widely regarded as tedious and repetitive, with many players highlighting the slow skill progression, repetitive combat against scaling enemies, and fetch quest-heavy design that often disrupts immersion. While improvements to leveling systems have reduced some grind-related frustrations compared to the original, many mechanics such as enchanting, dungeon exploration, and certain quest lines remain time-consuming and monotonous. Fans of classic RPGs and the Elder Scrolls series may appreciate the nostalgia and depth despite the grind, but newcomers might find it daunting or exhausting.

    • “You'll need a second life for grinding.”
    • “The leveling system is not tedious anymore.”
    • “A bit grindy sometimes.”
    • “The grinding is awful, many of the before mentioned side quests are locked behind fetch and backtracking quests (some of these quests involve doing 3 quests of fetching and running back again, then you must advance in rank, and if I remember correctly there are 8 or 9 of them in each faction).”
    • “Instead of a challenging difficulty curve, you get slow, tedious fights.”
    • “The amount of temples, caves, and dungeons could be seen as great, but due to how limited their tile set is and the basic combat from enemies, they become quite tedious.”
  • monetization
    211 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The monetization of this game is widely criticized as a blatant, lazy cash grab by Bethesda, characterized by overpriced editions, lack of meaningful improvements, and poor optimization. While some appreciate the absence of microtransactions and see it as a genuine attempt to honor the original, most reviews highlight the game's rushed release, minimal updates, and exploitative pricing as signs of cynical profit-driven motives rather than dedication to quality or player experience.

    • “No annoying microtransactions, no constant online access, no season passes or in-game currencies... this game doesn't have any of that crap because it's just fundamentally good.”
    • “No microtransactions, no paid cosmetics, no predatory monetization.”
    • “A remaster done right — full package, no microtransactions, all DLC included.”
    • “Their last patch was the better part of a year ago. I'll update my review if they ever fix it but to be honest, I don't think that's happening. It's basically a cash grab abandonware project as it stands.”
    • “97% sure this is just a sad attempt at a cash grab by Bethesda. Basically zero patches or updates since release addressing bugs, crashes or performance issues. The game might look pretty but it does not run well. Also, if you manage to hit the "`" key at any time even by accident, your achievements are disabled and you have to start a new character to get achievements or use a mod to re-enable them.”
    • “Months later and there is no fix. It was just a dirty cash grab typical of modern day Bethesda — a beta test for Unreal Engine and Creation Engine that we paid to be the beta testers for.”
  • emotional
    199 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered evokes a deep emotional response, blending nostalgia and heartfelt moments that transport longtime fans back to their childhood and original experiences. Despite some frustrations with game stability and NPC delivery, many players describe the remaster as a touching, bittersweet journey filled with tears of joy, sentimentality, and renewed wonder at revisiting a beloved classic. The enhanced visuals and music amplify the emotional impact, making it both a heartfelt tribute and a rewarding experience for new and returning players alike.

    • “As someone who easily spent thousands of hours on Oblivion 2006 between Xbox 360, GFWL, and Steam, this game scratches that same itch and truly made me feel like a teenager again.”
    • “When the news broke that Oblivion was getting remastered, I was so happy but then time ticked, and ticked and tocked... and it never came... until now... when the announcement on YouTube dropped, I couldn't even get past the countdown, I began to flow with tears, my wife had to console me, but she wasn't consoling 26 year old me, no... she was consoling the 8 year old past me, and made me feel alive again.”
    • “I was so overcome with memories and emotion during the intro, when the camera swoops over the city and the Oblivion logo comes on screen and the music ramps up to its crescendo, that I actually welled up with tears, it was all so beautiful.”
    • “As an adult, I have to say that some of the side factions like the Mages Guild, Thieves Guild, Arena, etc. have pretty boring storylines.”
    • “It's a pretty boring world filled with pretty boring NPCs and pretty boring storylines.”
    • “The world is bland, not that magical, very few colors, all doors look the same (be prepared to get lost in a dungeon), can't wield weapons with your left hand, two-handed weapons are slow, and the story is pretty boring even in the beginning.”
  • replayability
    116 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game offers high replayability through diverse character builds, quests, and playstyles, much like the original, making it enjoyable for repeated playthroughs. However, limited mod support compared to the 2006 version diminishes its overall replay value for some players. While graphical and gameplay improvements enhance playability and accessibility, performance issues and lack of ongoing updates impact the experience for others.

    • “High replayability with several ways to build your character.”
    • “There are also many different ways to play the game, with a wide variety of classes, playstyles, and strategies, which gives it a lot of replay value.”
    • “Hundreds of quests, guild storylines, secret locations, and the ability to just get gloriously lost make this one of the most replayable RPGs ever made.”
    • “Has almost zero replay value compared to other titles because of the abysmal mod support.”
    • “The lack of proper mod support means that modding the game is much more limited compared to the 2006 original, unfortunately damaging the replay value considerably.”
    • “Low to no replay value.”
  • character development
    43 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Character development in the game is noted for its open-ended, choice-driven progression and improved leveling system that offers customization and forgiveness for minor mistakes. However, opinions on character design are mixed—while some praise the updated, more realistic and diverse designs, others find them uncanny, rough compared to Skyrim, or less charming than the original, with certain animations and aesthetics feeling awkward. Overall, character development and narrative depth are strengths, though design execution divides players.

    • “The extensiveness of things to do is incredibly refreshing; there is something around every corner, it's gorgeous, there's so much dialogue and character development, and every quest feels like a real conflict.”
    • “Leveling and character development is both streamlined and gives you more control, ensuring that the game plays differently as your character levels up.”
    • “Rich storytelling, deep quests, and open-ended character development shine through to the end.”
    • “Oblivion (and now, Oblivion Remastered) is a flawed game across virtually every metric, whether it be gameplay, story, character development, or technical performance.”
    • “Don't expect deep character development when leveling; it is very basic (stats-based players prepare to be disappointed).”
    • “Everything from combat to UI to character design exists in this uncanny state where it is too tethered to the original to compete with modern standards, but updated enough that the existing flaws become all the more jarring.”
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is a open world role playing game with fantasy theme.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is available on Xbox Series X|S, PC, PlayStation 5, Windows and others.

On average players spend around 55 hours playing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered was released on April 22, 2025.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered was developed by Bethesda Game Studios.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered for its graphics but disliked it for its optimization.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is a single player game.

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